Lovely Dark

Detective Nora Vale has never been wrong about a man.Six bodies. Nine years. Six men the law reached for and failed to hold: a trafficker who walked free, a teacher three districts couldn't charge, a husband who buried two wives. Someone has been balancing the books in the rain-drowned town of Calder, and the cold case lands on Nora's desk like a verdict waiting to be read.She is the best investigator in the county. She reads a room the second she walks into it. For fifteen years she has found the hand that did the thing and closed it in cuffs.She has never once read the man who lies beside her.Elias Crane mends broken things for a living. He is patient, exacting, gentle in a way that costs him something. He stopped killing the winter he met her, and he has kept that promise for four years, even as he watches the woman he loves work her way, file by patient file, toward the truth at the center of him. He won't run. He won't lie to her with his whole life. He will simply hand her his real mind across the dinner table and let her decide what he is.The closer she gets, the more she likes what she is hunting.And the night she finally understands what he has done, she will face the only question her badge never prepared her for. Not what the law requires. What she is willing to forgive.A slow-burn dark romance for readers who fall for the monster and stay.The Lovely Dark begins here. Book one of a trilogy. Content note: dark romance with morally grey themes and violence. Intended for adult readers.