Under His Mask

Hailey Smith has spent years learning how to disappear-
quiet steps, lowered eyes, a heart stitched together with secrets she never speaks.
The bookstore where she works is the only place that feels safe.
The only place where the world leaves her alone.

Until it doesn't.

Until a stranger steps out of the shadows and into her life without ever saying a word.
A man who watches her with a hunger she doesn't understand.
A man she never sees... but always feels.

Vildom Blackmoor lives in a world shaped by power, darkness, and the brutal edges of control.
He doesn't chase.
He doesn't crave.
He doesn't obsess.

Not until Hailey.

Her quiet strength draws him.
Her haunted eyes undo him.
Her fear-and the fire beneath it-ignite something he's spent his life burying.

He tells himself he only wants to keep her safe.
He lies.

When the shadows finally close around her, Hailey discovers the truth:

Safety isn't what Vildom offers.
Obsession is.
Possession is.
A darkness that feels like devotion... and a devotion that feels like ruin.

Once she steps into his world, there is no going back.

And the most terrifying part?

She isn't sure she wants to.