Really Should Stay

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Nicholas
There are only two people in this world that I’ve ever cared about: my twin… and her.

Tamryn.

Miss Carlisle.

My history teacher when I was a senior in high school—and the woman I couldn’t stay away from, even when she begged me to.

Even when all of Shadowvale thought I should... as if I cared about that. Still, I did what was expected of me. I didn’t pursue her until after I graduated. Then, after the fateful Halloween when I turned nineteen, I claimed her as mine—but, by Christmas, she was gone.

I didn’t chase. That’s always been Hunter’s thing, and he tried to find her for me. I know he did.

What I didn’t know? Was that he never stopped searching—just like I never stopped thinking of Tamryn of mine.

So when Hunter one-ups last year's birthday gift to him by leaving Tamryn under my Christmas tree this year, there’s no doubt in mind about what I’m going to do with her.

Anything I want.

Tamryn

I made it a little over a year as a teacher before scandal had me changing my name, changing my looks, and walking away from the biggest mistake I ever made.

Ten years later, I have to admit that leaving was a bigger one.

Nicholas Reed. I knew what I was getting into when I went to his house that Halloween, but I thought it was okay. He was the one he pursued me, and he wasn’t my student anymore.

No. But when he killed my ex in front of me, then expected me to look past it, I knew that he was more trouble than I needed—especially when I’m the cop’s only suspect.

I kept my silence, and he kept his distance. But as the years slipped by, I couldn’t help but think I saw him there. Over my shoulder, in the reflection of a storefront window, even in my gated community.

But it wasn’t Nicholas, was it? It was his twin—and he’s finally decided it’s time I go where I belong.

It’s time I return to Shadowvale… and face the man Nicholas has become, and who I’m still inexplicably drawn to a decade after I saw him last.

• an obsessed man with a God complex
• serial killer hero
• kidnapping
• drugging
• captive romance
• the snowed-in trope
• dubcon/cnc
• breeding (including birth control tampering)
• mentions of murder (off-page)
•  the heroine being chipped/tracked
•  a primal chase 
• festive bondage
• pregnancy/mention of infertility in epilogue