"If you lose me, I'll kill you."
Cameron Axley has one goal: survive long enough to find the girl they took from him.
He was fifteen when he put a knife in the man who crawled into her bed. He didn't run. He sat on the porch, ate his apple, and waited for the sirens. Before the cops dragged him away, he put a tracker into her neck because he knew. He knew they'd try to separate them. He knew the system would swallow her, and that whatever cage they threw him in, he'd claw his way out.
Lakey has one goal: don't break.
Shipped to a home for wayward girls run by sadistic nuns, Lakey does what she's always done. She counts the days, steals knives, and survives. When the nuns try to break the girls around her, she teaches them to fight back. When they come for her, she makes them regret it.
But Cam and Lakey aren't the only ones with plans. Someone placed them in those homes. Someone is watching, and the system that separated them didn't do it by accident.
Four years. Two cages. One promise.
Wicked Sinners is a short origin story from the Shattered Souls series and ends on a cliffhanger. Books must be read in order to fully understand the universe. This is an optional read for those who want to see who Cam and Lakey were in their childhoods, and it is a tragedy.
TROPES:
Cameron Axley has one goal: survive long enough to find the girl they took from him.
He was fifteen when he put a knife in the man who crawled into her bed. He didn't run. He sat on the porch, ate his apple, and waited for the sirens. Before the cops dragged him away, he put a tracker into her neck because he knew. He knew they'd try to separate them. He knew the system would swallow her, and that whatever cage they threw him in, he'd claw his way out.
Lakey has one goal: don't break.
Shipped to a home for wayward girls run by sadistic nuns, Lakey does what she's always done. She counts the days, steals knives, and survives. When the nuns try to break the girls around her, she teaches them to fight back. When they come for her, she makes them regret it.
But Cam and Lakey aren't the only ones with plans. Someone placed them in those homes. Someone is watching, and the system that separated them didn't do it by accident.
Four years. Two cages. One promise.
Wicked Sinners is a short origin story from the Shattered Souls series and ends on a cliffhanger. Books must be read in order to fully understand the universe. This is an optional read for those who want to see who Cam and Lakey were in their childhoods, and it is a tragedy.
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
Underground fighting
Forced proximity
Us against the world
Dual POV
He fell first
Only soft for her
Villain romance/Anti-heroes
Dark conspiracy / cult undertones
Unreliable memory / gaslighting
Serial killer romance
Who did this to you?
Ride or die
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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