The Devil I Chose

She went in the woods to find quiet.
She left with a secret that could get her killed.

Erika Vane has spent her life hiding the darkness she feels but never understood - the calm that settles over her when the world turns violent. The quiet she retreats into when fear takes everyone else's breath away. She thinks it makes her broken.

Until the night she sees him.

A man with eyes as cold as the forest water.
A man who kills without hesitation... and without remorse.
A man who should terrify her.

But instead, something inside her wakes.

He notices the way she doesn't scream.
Doesn't run.
Doesn't look away.

And that makes her the most dangerous thing he's ever seen.

Riven Torrence is a monster shaped by blood and shadows, a man who hunts with a patience that feels almost tender. He has no interest in love - only in unraveling people until he finds what breaks them.

But she doesn't break.
She bends.
She watches him right back.

Now he wants her - not as prey, but as something far more twisted.
Something he's never had.
Something he's willing to destroy the world to keep.

She shouldn't want a killer.
He shouldn't want a girl with a heart still trying to be good.

But the forest knows the truth

Some monsters are born.
Others are made.
And some...
are awakened.