This book starts out with a young woman being held captive by a psycopathic serial killer only known as The Sculptor. The young woman decides to try to end her life to escape her torment at the hands of her abuser/captor. He threatens her and tells her she will always belong to him and that he will always find her.
We fast forward 5 years to find the same young woman living in New Orleans with her foster brother. She is a succesful artist while her foster brother Jamie is a succesful restaurant chef. We learn that this young woman is named Harper and that her and Jamie are within the FBI's witness protection program because she is hiding from the Sculptor. Harper meets a young man named Evan that is friends with Jamie and is also very wealthy, the most elgible bachelor in New Orleans and is from a very powerful family. Evan wants Harper all to himself and he intends to have her. Evan is just a little bit too stalkery for me but he appeals to Harper very much. They do have a few bumps in the road along the way because of Harper's issues from the attack but they eventually do begin a sexual relationship with each other. Evan is delighted that Harper craves the pain that he gives her.
While Harper is attending one of her shows at an art gallery she runs in to Evan as she is fleeing the scene after her manager introduces her to a man that is jsut gives off a weird vibe to her. The next morning Harper hears Evan talking with her manager who jsut happens to be an FBI agent and so is the man that she met the night before at the gallery. She finds out that the FBI was just using her as bait to try to draw the Sculptor out of hiding and that he knows where she is. She also learns that the Sculptor is after her again. She is given a choice to either go with the FBI or to go with Evan. Evan makes the choice for her and she goes with him. Evan puts members of his personal security detail with Harper to watch over her.
Evan and Harper have several nasty fights but they eventually make up and Harper learns some shocking secrets about Evan and his amily as well. Harper attends a Mardi Gras ball where she is waiting on Evan and is instead escorted to a car where she assumes Evan is waiting on her but is instead drugged. Her last thought before she succumbs to the drug is that the Sculptor has kidnapped her again.
In order to find out what happens next one will have to read the next book in the series.
Recommendation: Read this one if you like dark BDSM romance
I receivied a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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