The Root of My Evil

For Vincent Carlyle, she was his only quiet sanctuary - a creature of moonlight who loved his rough hands because she believed they only knew how to hold her.

For a brief, beautiful time, he allowed himself to believe he could survive in her warm light.

​But a monster cannot live in a sanctuary forever.

​When the violent shadows of his past shatter their peaceful reality on a freezing October night, Vincent does the only thing he knows how to do to protect her: he becomes a weapon once more.

Staring at the violence he committed in her name, Vincent doesn't find thrill - he finds horror.

He doesn't want to be a monster, but the dark instinct to shield her is completely out of his control.

​Leaving himself kneeling in handcuffs on the wet asphalt, Vincent sacrifices his freedom so she can stay pure.

Yet, locked in a freezing cell and stripped of her scent of coffee and rain, his sacrifice is only beginning.

​A terrifying new door is opening in the underground. To keep the love of his life safe from afar - even if it means letting her believe he is nothing but a criminal - he must fully surrender to the nightmare he tried to bury.

​He will let the world break him, as long as she stays whole.