Vicious

By A. J. Merlin

Heat level

Explicit

One, two, he’s coming for you Three, four, better run some more I never would have accepted his help if I’d known what he’d do. When the stranger who got me out of a mess in Springwood turns the town into a slaughterhouse in my name, I do the only thing I can do. I run. Not far enough, though, because I can feel him in Akron, looking for me. But he wants to take me home, and I can’t go back. Not after what he did. Especially when I know that more than anything, he wants me home with him. But when his words betray how he really feels, and instead of violence from the monster of Springwood, I get something completely different. Will I be tricked into going home after all? Or will he drag me away, kicking and screaming, with his claws so deep I’ll never be free? Vicious is a contemporary dark romance standalone set in the Pleasure & Prey universe. This is an MF romance. Please see author’s note at the front of the book using the ‘look inside the book’ feature for a full list of content warnings.

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Dominance and submissioncentral theme
Captor captivecentral theme
Graphic violencecentral theme
Heavy kinkscene
Primal playscene
Blood and gorescene
On-page murderscene
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