Not all monsters die. Some pass on their legacy I was raised by a monster—and the worst part is, he tried to turn me into one too. For twenty years, I’ve buried the boy I used to be. The ranch. The screams. The blood. My father’s hands forcing me into a legacy I never wanted. I changed my name. Built a new life. Learned to pretend I’m normal. And I thought I escaped him. But lately… things feel wrong. My door is left unlocked. My keys move when I’m asleep. Files appear on my laptop—images that drag me straight back into the nightmare I’ve tried so hard to forget. Someone is inside my world. Someone who knows my past. Someone who wants me to remember what I was trained to become. Then I meet her—soft, warm, too good for the shadows that follow me. She smiles like the world hasn’t touched her, and I should stay far away… but obsession is the one thing my father succeeded in teaching me. And the darkness inside me is waking up again. I’ve spent my whole life running from the monster who raised me. I just never expected the real danger would be the one still living inside me. Trigger All of them, honestly. But specifically… Heavy non-con scenes, torture, restraint, degradation, water insertion kink, emotional abuse, CSA, Familia SA (side plot), obsessive fixation, choking, disturbed mental states, grooming, intense power imbalance, eyeball f*cking, murder, gore, sexual coercion, trauma bonding, threats of mutilation, predatory MMC, another female captive (no cheating once the FMC is taken), Necrophilia, sadism, and general “I should not be aroused by this” energy. Tangled is a standalone pitch-black psychological erotic romance with an HEA