Blood and Battle: Book 2 /// Elle is gone. She left the BAU, the FBI, and Carli D'angelo in a pile of ruins. Running from the demons she can't control, she flees to New York and the only sense of familiarity she manages to scrounge up. Carli is lost. Her reason to fight has quit the battle, leaving her without direction. Struggling to keep the FBI off her back along with psychotic serial killers, Carli drowns herself in the only thing she can make sense of: the never-ending piles of horrible cases she faces every day. But when a mysterious case forces the two back together, the demons catch up. The fight continues. But this time, they find themselves on opposing ends of the battleground. #1 crime 10/24/21

Carli D'angelo has been a member of the Behavioral Analysis Unit for nearly a year and a half now. Her team is called in to track down an active serial killer in Seattle. The last thing Carli expects as she works the case is to meet Elle Greenaway, a sex crimes agent with her eye on the open BAU position. In a line of work with strict policy and unpredictable danger, Carli and Elle fight to keep their emotions in check. But as time progresses, they slowly realize the truth: they are fighting for each other. #1 fbi 3/26/23 #1 elle 1/23/23 #1 ellegreenaway 8/25/22 #1 bau 5/24/22 #1 gxg 4/10/22 #1 womanxwoman 2/25/22 #1 derekmorgan 2/10/22 #1 wlw 2/8/22 #1 jenniferjareau 12/14/21 #1 crimefiction 11/12/21 #1 penelopegarcia 10/24/21 #1 lgbtfiction 8/11/21 #1 criminalminds 3/5/21 #1 fbiagent 12/14/20

❝It's okay to feel it all. It's okay to feel it half. Or nothing, nothing at all. The moon isn't always full.❞ -ventum ღ Life was an infinite ocean of unexpected, sometimes too heavy to carry on weak shoulders. After those eighteen years of existence she already knew too well the bitter taste of deception, loneliness and desertion, hence the wall she learnt to build all around her. Until someone forced themselves into her life and heart. But this love was forbidden and they both knew it. (gxg; teacherxstudent) (this needs to be deeply rewritten but i'm awfully lazy atm ahah)