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Portrait of a Bruised Mind
MicALilHigher
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MicALilHigher
Ongoing, First published Jul 15
contemporaryfictiondarkromanceidentitycrisisinnerdemonsmanipulationmentalhealthmodernromancemysterypsychologicaldramapsychologicalromancepsychopathromanticsuspensesociopaththrillertrauma
He was the quiet war. She was trained to survive them.
One has a private army. The other was sent to kill him.
But neither expected to see a reflection in the person they were supposed to destroy.

In a world that doesn't make room for softness,
a sociopath and a psychopath meet in the shadows of their past.
What begins as a game of manipulation becomes a mirror of buried trauma,
obsession, and a love that was never meant to exist.

They don't fall in love.
They fall into something far more dangerous:
recognition.

This is not a story of healing.
This is the story of what happens before that.
Of two minds bruised differently -
and the storm that begins when they collide.
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Luminous Obsession: Book One

13 parts Ongoing Mature

He watches her. He follows her. He knows her every move. To him, she isn't just a woman-she's the obsession, the one light in a world he'll burn down to possess. Livia Vale never wanted to be seen this closely. But the stranger who shadows her isn't a stranger anymore-he's in her life, her thoughts, her veins. Every warning sign tells her to run, yet every stolen glance pulls her deeper into his orbit. As his devotion twists into control and his love bleeds into obsession, she's forced to confront the truth: some cages are built not from iron, but from desire. In a game of predator and prey, can she resist the darkness that craves her-or will she surrender to a passion that was never meant to set her free?

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