Two years ago, she disappeared. Last night, she crawled back through his gates, half dead and covered in someone else's blood.
Charlize Preston was declared gone. Not missing. Gone. And the man who once owned every part of her buried her the only way he knows how: with rage.
Now she's back, starving, silent, and shattered, and she remembers exactly who did it to her. She just doesn't know why. Why her. Why two years. Why she's still breathing when she shouldn't be.
She came back for answers. She'll settle for blood.
Jaxon Blackwood doesn't forgive. He passes sentence.
They call him Judge, and inside his black circus tent, his word is the only law that's ever mattered. He's spent two years hollowing himself out over a woman who left him without a word, and now that same woman is lying broken in his house, wearing another man's marks.
So he does what a man like him does with something he can't stand to lose again.
He locks it up.
But Charlize just clawed her way out of one cage. She won't survive a second, not even a gilded one. And the rumors bleeding through his territory are getting louder: that she was never taken at all. That she chose. That she's been sleeping with his most dangerous enemy the entire time.
One of them is lying.
Neither of them is innocent.
And love, in his world, was never meant to be gentle.
Welcome to the Circus, babe.
WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS is the first book in a dark, obsessive duology. It ends on a cliffhanger. The story concludes in Book Two.
Tropes: touch-her-and-die, morally black anti-hero, second chance, he falls first and hardest, captivity, enemies with history, found family, forced proximity, dual POV, organized crime
Content warning: This is a dark romance for adult
Genre: Historical Romance
Charlize Preston was declared gone. Not missing. Gone. And the man who once owned every part of her buried her the only way he knows how: with rage.
Now she's back, starving, silent, and shattered, and she remembers exactly who did it to her. She just doesn't know why. Why her. Why two years. Why she's still breathing when she shouldn't be.
She came back for answers. She'll settle for blood.
Jaxon Blackwood doesn't forgive. He passes sentence.
They call him Judge, and inside his black circus tent, his word is the only law that's ever mattered. He's spent two years hollowing himself out over a woman who left him without a word, and now that same woman is lying broken in his house, wearing another man's marks.
So he does what a man like him does with something he can't stand to lose again.
He locks it up.
But Charlize just clawed her way out of one cage. She won't survive a second, not even a gilded one. And the rumors bleeding through his territory are getting louder: that she was never taken at all. That she chose. That she's been sleeping with his most dangerous enemy the entire time.
One of them is lying.
Neither of them is innocent.
And love, in his world, was never meant to be gentle.
Welcome to the Circus, babe.
WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS is the first book in a dark, obsessive duology. It ends on a cliffhanger. The story concludes in Book Two.
Tropes: touch-her-and-die, morally black anti-hero, second chance, he falls first and hardest, captivity, enemies with history, found family, forced proximity, dual POV, organized crime
Content warning: This is a dark romance for adult
Genre: Historical Romance