The Color of Trauma

<p><strong>She surgically removes other people's trauma for a living. Guess whose shit she doesn't want to deal with? Her own.</strong></p><p>Kiera's gift lets her experience-and extract-the worst moments of someone's life. It pays well. It keeps her busy. And it means she never has to face her own demons.</p><p>Then Chicago homicide detective Dean manipulates her into a serial killer case. The only witness is comatose and Kiera's ability is the only way to access her memories.</p><p>Son of a bitch.</p><p>Every memory she pulls drags them closer to a killer who's already watching. It also drags her closer to Dean-a man who sees through her sarcasm and somehow makes her want to let him in.</p><p>Bad timing. Because the killer just made her his next target.</p><p>***</p><p><strong>He catches killers by thinking like one. She might be the only one who understands his darkness.</strong></p><p>Dean's gift for getting inside a killer's head makes him good at his job. It also makes him wonder what it says about him.</p><p>When his team catches a homicide that matches two others across the city Dean knows this killer won't stop. The only witness is comatose and he needs a memory surgeon who can access what she saw.</p><p>He didn't want Kiera-her reputation for being difficult preceded her. But she's also the best and when she agrees he's not stupid enough to say no.</p><p>The problem? Working with her means she's in the killer's crosshairs. And the way she sees straight through his careful control makes her dangerous in a completely different way.</p><p>Losing her isn't an option.</p><p></p><p><strong>A dark steamy romantic suspense with a snarky heroine who bites when cornered a detective with shadows of his own and a psychic gift that makes everything devastatingly personal.</strong></p><p></p><p>Content warning: Explicit sex scenes references and depictions of physical and sexual violence (NOT between the protagonists) PTSD reactions minor drug use profanity and not just a little.</p><p></p>