Brutal Secret
(2026)(The second book in the Shattered Souls: Prequel series)
A novel by Harbor Graves
"Because there is no hell deep enough, no heaven high enough to erase the bonding of our souls."
Cameron and Lakey have survived the system, the cages, and each other. They've built a life from blood and bruises and a love that would terrify anyone sane enough to witness it.
But the past isn't done with them.
When Cam wakes up drugged in a stranger's arms with a girl whispering that she can make him forget Lakey ever existed, he realizes the people who separated them as children never stopped watching. They have a name. They have a plan. And whatever they put in his veins is designed to burn away the one thing he'd die to keep—her.
Lakey wakes up in a park covered in blood she doesn't remember spilling, next to the only person she's ever loved, who isn't breathing. When his heart starts again, hers doesn't slow down, because someone touched what's hers, and there isn't a corner of this world dark enough to hide from what she's about to become.
They came from the same broken place. Now they're going back to find out what was done to them, and the truth is worse than the nightmares they can't remember.
Someone built them. Someone broke them.
And someone is about to find out what happens when their creations come home.
Brutal Secret is prequel two of the Shattered Souls series and ends on a cliffhanger. Books must be read in order to fully understand the universe.
TROPES:
Cameron and Lakey have survived the system, the cages, and each other. They've built a life from blood and bruises and a love that would terrify anyone sane enough to witness it.
But the past isn't done with them.
When Cam wakes up drugged in a stranger's arms with a girl whispering that she can make him forget Lakey ever existed, he realizes the people who separated them as children never stopped watching. They have a name. They have a plan. And whatever they put in his veins is designed to burn away the one thing he'd die to keep—her.
Lakey wakes up in a park covered in blood she doesn't remember spilling, next to the only person she's ever loved, who isn't breathing. When his heart starts again, hers doesn't slow down, because someone touched what's hers, and there isn't a corner of this world dark enough to hide from what she's about to become.
They came from the same broken place. Now they're going back to find out what was done to them, and the truth is worse than the nightmares they can't remember.
Someone built them. Someone broke them.
And someone is about to find out what happens when their creations come home.
Brutal Secret is prequel two of the Shattered Souls series and ends on a cliffhanger. Books must be read in order to fully understand the universe.
TROPES:
- Dark psychological romance
Romantic tragedy
Childhood foster siblings to lovers
Codependent / obsessive love
Morally black protagonists (both MMC and FMC)
Possessive / protective MMC
Feral FMC
Touch her/him and die
Memory manipulation / drugging
Forced amnesia
Return to the scene of trauma
Secret organization / dark conspiracy
Dual POV
He fell first
Only soft for her
Villain romance / Anti-heroes
Who did this to you?
Ride or die
Us against the world
Explicit spice
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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