Under your skin
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MatureOngoing30m
Last published Wed, Jun 18, 2025
He was a bad habit I couldn't break. I was the obsession he couldn't escape.
Angelica Carter plays by the rules. She keeps her head down, avoids attention, and focuses on her art. But all of that shatters when he shows up-the dark-eyed stranger with a devil's smirk and chaos in his wake. She doesn't know his name. Doesn't know what he wants. Only that he's always there. Watching. Waiting. Getting under her skin.
Ryder Hawthorn doesn't fall. He ruins. And the quiet, guarded girl he should've ignored? She's the one he can't stay away from. Sweet, soft, untouchable-and now she's his favorite sin. His muse. His madness.
As obsession turns dangerous and enemies become something else entirely, Angelica will have to decide how far she's willing to go to survive Ryder's world-and what part of herself she's willing to lose in the process.
A dark romance filled with slow-burn tension, twisted attraction, and the kind of love that leaves scars.
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