MLorraine
She didn't start out powerful.
She became dangerous by surviving.
Karen arrives in the city with ambition, discipline, and a hunger to become more than her past. Law school is supposed to be her escape-rules, structure, justice. A world where control is earned, not taken.
But some lessons aren't taught in classrooms.
A relationship that begins quietly-almost gently-starts to shape her in ways she doesn't immediately recognize. Love blurs into obligation. Protection into control. And by the time Karen understands what's happening, she's already learned how easy it is to mistake survival for loyalty.
She leaves. She rebuilds. She becomes a lawyer.
She believes the worst is behind her.
Then he returns.
A man who lives beyond rules, who understands power instinctively, and who has always known how to find the fractures beneath her strength. With him, nothing is simple. Nothing is safe. And nothing feels accidental.
As Karen fights her way into the courtroom-defending women, exposing abuse, mastering a system designed to break the unprepared-she is forced to face the one truth she has avoided:
You don't escape your past by outrunning it.
You escape it by confronting the men who shaped you.
Dark romance. Psychological trauma. Power dynamics. Survival.
A story about becoming strong in a world that profits from breaking women.
For readers who crave intensity, moral ambiguity, and love that cuts deep.
This is not a safe romance.
This is a necessary one.