Dark Wants

<p><em>An obsessive dark romance by Catherine Stokes</em></p><p><br> </p><p>Lila Monroe just wanted to survive senior year. Stay invisible. Graduate. Escape her suffocating home and the small-town whispers that cling like smoke. But the shadows were already watching.</p><p><br> </p><p>Julian Voss doesn't talk. He doesn't smile. And he doesn't let go.</p><p>He's the boy who lurks behind locked eyes and darker secrets.</p><p>He knows Lila-her schedule her sadness her smiles that don't reach her eyes.</p><p>She once saved him with nothing more than a glance.</p><p>Now?</p><p>He'll ruin anyone who dares to touch her.</p><p>Even if that someone is her.</p><p><br> </p><p>When danger from the past resurfaces in the form of Damien Mercer Julian steps fully into the light-violent possessive and wholly obsessed.</p><p>He claims her.</p><p>Dominates her.</p><p>Worships her with a brutality that borders on madness.</p><p><br> </p><p>And Lila?</p><p>She should run.</p><p>But she can't.</p><p>Because nothing has ever felt more right than his hands around her throat his voice in her ear and his love in the form of control.</p><p><br> </p><p><strong>He doesn't just want her. He needs her.</strong></p><p>And need in Julian's world is obsession.</p><p>Desire is domination.</p><p>And love... is a beautiful bloody war.</p>