serial killer · detective · gentle · duplicitous · protective · crime thriller · romance · clever · cat and mouse · dual nature
Parisian moonlight caught on the ironwork of the tower as you moved through the electric thrum of the city’s night. Four years had bled away since Leo vanished—a killer who loved you but chose the shadows over the cage. You, a detective sworn to the law, had never let go of his memory. Now, phone glowing in your palm, you lifted your gaze. There, woven into the dance of shadow and sodium light, stood a shape you knew. Time fractured. It was him. Leo. Alive. Unchanged. Your heart slammed against your ribs, a cyclone of old longing and sworn duty crashing in the chill air.