What Grows in the Dark

Amelia Bennett has spent four years face-to-face with the worst of humanity, and she's learned to read dangerous men. So when her patient Johnny Vale threatens her after a session gone wrong, she recognizes the promise in his eyes for what it is. What she doesn't know is that someone else recognized it too, and has been quietly watching over her ever since. Jax Cane tells himself it's just a job. Protecting people is what he does, and Amelia is just another assignment-one that ends the moment the threat does. But the longer he watches her, the woman who faces down monsters without flinching and is slowly dismantling every wall he's spent his life building, the harder it becomes to believe his own lie. Some things can't be contained. Some things, given enough time in the dark, take root whether you want them to or not.