"HE KILLED FOR ME. HE LIED FOR ME. BUT HE WILL NEVER LOVE ME." "I will break your legs and tie you to this bed until you realize that you belong to me. You are mine, Alyssa. Every breath. Every heartbeat." On the night I escaped my "perfect" home, I thought I had finally found freedom. I didn't realize I was running straight into a trap that had been set for me a year ago. I woke up in a room that shouldn't exist. A perfect replica of my own bedroom, tucked away in a cabin of horrors. My captor is a beautiful sociopath with hazel eyes, a lion's heart, and a terrifying obsession. He's been watching me from the shadows of the trees, harvesting my tears and documenting my life. The Rules are simple: Don't try to run. Don't lie to him. He won't touch me... until I fall in love with him. But the forest is full of monsters, and his men see me as nothing more than a "prize" to be tasted. When the blood starts to spill, and the gunshots ring out, I'm forced to face a reality darker than the woods: What do you do when the only person who can save you from the monsters... is the man who stole you?

It started with a friendship. A playground. A girl who smiled at the wrong boy. Now people are missing. Secrets are buried. And nothing about Ben's world feels normal anymore. He says he just wants to keep her safe. But safety and obsession can look the same from the inside. And someone has already seen what he's doing. To everyone else, Ben is just the quiet boy blending into the background. But to Aliah, he's someone who needs saving. She has no idea he's been watching her from the dark for months. She doesn't know he's mapped her habits, or that his thoughts about her have begun to take over everything else. When a sudden tragedy leaves Ben entirely alone, he decides it's time to stop watching from afar. In a torrential downpour, he stages a perfect, heartbreaking accident and collapses on her doorstep. He plays the wounded animal flawlessly. And it works. He's taken in. He's trusted. He thinks he's won. But the deeper Ben embeds himself into her life, the more he realizes something is wrong inside the house he's just entered. Because he isn't the only one keeping secrets. And someone inside is watching him right back.