The monster hiding in the shadows is real. He doesn’t have horns or sharp claws, but a deep scowl, piercing hazel eyes, and a bunker deep in the woods equipped for his fantasies to play out like a horror movie. And it becomes my reality in seconds. My captor is out for retribution, and he thinks I’m to blame. He believes I’m the evil that shrouded his world and tipped it upside down. Hate isn’t enough of a word for what he feels for me, and while he terrifies me, I mask my pain as best as I can. A pointless feat because he feels my discomfort, revels in it. And yet in the midst of his hell, I can’t seem to miss the way those eyes burn with hunger. The kind that involves him devouring me with his tongue and teeth. Emric is the beast in my darkest nightmares. Until he realized that his reality is a blurred screen of the truth—mine. \\OVERCAST IS A STANDALONE AND IS BOOK ONE OF THE B723 SERIES. YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ CATFISH AND BONA FIDE FROM THE ILLUSIVE DUET BUT YOU WILL SEE CHARACTERS FROM THIS DUET. THIS IS A DARK ROMANCE WITH TRIGGERS.\\

Emmy Lou Rhodes was mine, but she didn’t want anyone to know. She kept me a dirty secret, locked up like a caged animal so that no one would discover what we had done. I’m a man with demons who demand for me to heed caution. Yet I didn’t yield when I had the perfect opportunity to swallow her whole. I was her dirty little secret. She was my everything. But then she gave someone what I always wanted, her life, and then she destroyed me all in one night. Kace Bishop is a man I fell in love with when I knew better. He could never love a girl like me. Overbearing, opinionated, and, sure-shit, not going to take crap with the men I work with. I warned myself it wasn’t a good idea, but when he asked, I left without caring how hard I’d fall. He couldn’t give me what I needed. So I moved on and made the worse mistake of my life. I always thought Bishop would destroy me. Turns out, I’m the villain in this story.

I was minding my own business. I was. Out with my closest family, drinking and dancing the night away. Then I awoke—vision blurred, throat dry, head throbbing like someone was taking a sledgehammer to my skull except it wasn’t a hangover I was suffering. It was a kidnapping. They said I was their only hope to save their dad. You think that would at least give me a meal for such a feat. Not kept against my will, chained to a wall, and taunted with freedom. Then she appeared. Copper hair, luscious lips, and beautiful green eyes. I had hope. She crushed it. She lied to me. She promised me a way out of the hell I was enduring. So I stayed, wasting away day by day, praying to God B723 found me. They did. Then I created every way in my head to destroy her, them, and every single hard-on I had…for her. She thinks her sisters are bad. They’re a joke compared to what I’m capable of when pissed. \Nefarious is a dark romance and contains dark elements. This book also may also have, what can be considered, triggers. Please read with caution.\