When the Lights Go Out
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Last published Tue, Sep 2, 2025
When justice fails, vengeance rises.
Lucian Ashford has lived in the shadows ever since the night his parents were murdered and his little sister's life was stolen in the most brutal way imaginable. Now, he hunts those who walk free, delivering the kind of justice the courts never could. To the world, he's a ghost. To his victims, he's a nightmare.
Claire Brook, a young journalist hungry for the truth, sees the pattern others refuse to acknowledge. The deeper she digs, the closer she gets to uncovering the face behind the city's most chilling murders and the closer she draws to him.
But what happens when the hunter and the hunted become entangled in a dangerous obsession?
Is she chasing a story... or falling into the arms of the very monster she swore to expose?
A dark romance about vengeance, obsession, and the thin line between justice and sin.
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