"As long as it's me and you… who needs a fucking happy ending?"
They took her.
They cracked open her skull, pumped her full of chemicals, and buried everything she was under a white picket fence and a daughter who calls her Mom. Lakey wakes up in a town that doesn't exist on a map, with a sister she doesn't remember, a doctor who watches her too closely, and a bottle of pills she’s ordered to take.
But her body remembers what her brain can't. Her hands curl around kitchen knives in grips she was never taught. Her feet move in combat patterns when she chases her daughter through the yard. She’s fighting the conditioning, and she doesn’t even know why.
Cam isn't waiting for permission. He's burning every Chimera facility between him and wherever they're keeping his girl, running on whiskey and rage and the kind of love that doesn't ask nicely. When he finds her, she doesn't know his name, and she's not the same person they took.
Neither is he.
They have survived foster care, Chimera, and each other, but this time, getting out alive was never part of the plan.
Some love stories end with happily ever after.
This one ends with together.
Tainted Sin is the final installment of the Shattered Souls main trilogy and should be read after Wicked Nightmare and Twisted Dream. This book contains an alternate ending for readers who prefer an HEA.
Tropes include but are not limited to:
They took her.
They cracked open her skull, pumped her full of chemicals, and buried everything she was under a white picket fence and a daughter who calls her Mom. Lakey wakes up in a town that doesn't exist on a map, with a sister she doesn't remember, a doctor who watches her too closely, and a bottle of pills she’s ordered to take.
But her body remembers what her brain can't. Her hands curl around kitchen knives in grips she was never taught. Her feet move in combat patterns when she chases her daughter through the yard. She’s fighting the conditioning, and she doesn’t even know why.
Cam isn't waiting for permission. He's burning every Chimera facility between him and wherever they're keeping his girl, running on whiskey and rage and the kind of love that doesn't ask nicely. When he finds her, she doesn't know his name, and she's not the same person they took.
Neither is he.
They have survived foster care, Chimera, and each other, but this time, getting out alive was never part of the plan.
Some love stories end with happily ever after.
This one ends with together.
Tainted Sin is the final installment of the Shattered Souls main trilogy and should be read after Wicked Nightmare and Twisted Dream. This book contains an alternate ending for readers who prefer an HEA.
Tropes include but are not limited to:
- Dark romantic tragedy
Childhood foster siblings to lovers
Memory wipe/reconditioning
Captive in a false reality
Clone/doppelgänger reveal
Morally black protagonists (both MMC and FMC)
Possessive/obsessive love
Feral FMC who lost herself
He'll burn the world to find her
Touch her and die
Secret organization/dark conspiracy
Underground laboratories
Found family
Dual POV (alternating first person)
Only soft for each other
Villain romance/anti-heroes
Ride or die
Us against the world
"If you die, I die, too"
Explicit spice
Alternate HEA ending included
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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