Out of the Dark

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“You’re a dead man.”

Sean Keller’s words to Eden Gray nineteen years ago before an unthinkable crime was committed.

Once upon a time Eden had been persecuted by Sean and his friends. They had made his life an absolute misery. Now Eden’s back and he’s here for revenge. Sean is Sheriff in Clear Water Creek, respected and admired but tormented by his memories for half his life.

“You stood there and watched. You let it happen. If you go to the cops, you go down too.”

Eden is a broken man. The crime has pervaded every area of his life and he’s been unable to move on.

What both men have never been able to accept is their feelings for each other and how they can ever reconcile these with what happened that night.

Warnings: Rape, violence, homophobia, strong language, sexual scenes.

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Broken into Pieces

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The bogeyman has a name and that name is Dominic Bateman.

Finn Austen is a man with something to hide and Sheriff Brandon Schofield wants to know what it is. Finn is scarred and mutilated and hides away in a house he’s made into a prison.

Should he run forever, looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life, or should he go back to what he knew and where he belonged?

Brandon wants to open him up but Finn’s waiting for the bogeyman to find him. He knows time’s running out and he’s not sure he cares anymore.

“He should have killed me years ago. I should have let him.”

Themes: hurt/comfort, love at first sight, drama, angst.

Genre: Dark, gritty contemporary romance

Warnings: Abuse, strong language, rape, violence, homophobia. Sexual scenes.

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Still Breathing

 

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“This isn’t anything to do with Dominic, is it?” The name sounded odd on his tongue, as though Finn had difficulty working his mouth around it.

An adult movie company has moved operations to an abandoned warehouse in Clear Water Creek and its stars are vanishing. The films, it seems, have a mystery backer, one who will stop at nothing for the perfect piece of celluloid.

Sheriff Brandon Schofield didn’t think lightning could strike twice. Finn Austen is still struggling to overcome the ghosts of the past and his torture at the hands of his abusive partner, but Brandon’s investigation leads him back to Iowa and the scene of the crime.

He wanted to burn this place to the ground.

In the house of horrors Dominic Bateman kept Finn a prisoner in, he sees things he can never unsee and realizes that everything, in the end, always comes back to Finn.

Themes: crime, drama, angst, hurt/comfort

Genre: Dark, gritty contemporary romance

Warnings: Abuse, murder, strong language, rape, snuff, violence, homophobia. Sexual scenes.

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