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He came to break her... but she stirred something in him instead.
Eva Lockwood's life revolves around the warm aroma of coffee and the familiar chatter of her small-town customers-until the night a shadow steps into her closed café. Lucian Thorn is a ghost in the underworld, a hitman with a reputation for cruelty and a hunger for suffering. When he kidnaps Eva, he expects screams, terror, and finally... the satisfying spill of her blood.
But Eva isn't like his other victims.
Even bound and bleeding, she cracks jokes. Even in the face of death, she smiles. Her relentless optimism is infuriating-and intoxicating. The more time Lucian spends with her, the more her light seeps into his darkness, unraveling the cold precision he's lived by.
He came to break her.
She's healing him instead.
Now, Lucian faces an impossible choice: complete his sadistic mission or surrender to the one thing he never thought he'd feel-love. But the criminal world doesn't let go easily, and Eva's kindness might not be enough to save either of them.
A twisted dark romance where love blooms in the unlikeliest place... a killer's heart.