A Lamb Among Wolves // N. Smith

Cassie Rhodes learned at an early age how to endure-caught in a fractured home shaped by her father's control, her mother's absence, and her uncle's watchful eye. The only person who ever really saw her was her high school teacher, Negan Smith...until the world ended and he disappeared from her life.

Years later, after escaping a brutal cult of the Garden, Cassie runs straight into him again-changed, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. What begins as protection turns into something deeper, something neither of them can walk away from too easily.

Because in a world full of wolves, Cassie was always the lamb-and loving one might be the most dangerous thing she's ever done. And now, the question isn't whether a lamb can live among wolves...but what she's willing to become to stay.

[This story contains dark and mature subject matter. This story contains graphic depictions of physical violence, gore, strong language, explicit sexual content, substance abuse, cult and religious themes, age-gap relationships, and descriptions of and references to sexual and physical abuse and related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Reader discretion is strongly advised.]