Nora Harrison has built her life on two things: the truth and the distance she keeps between herself and anything that threatens to unravel it. As New York's sharpest investigative journalist, she has spent two years chasing a story that keeps getting buried - a criminal network so deeply embedded in the city's infrastructure that every time she gets close, someone makes the story disappear.
She has never been able to figure out who.
Then Luca Moretti walks into a charity gala, crosses a crowded ballroom, and looks at her like she is the only fixed point in a moving world.
Like he has been looking for her for a very long time.
Like he has finally, after everything, found her.
He is everything she knows better than to want: dangerous, obsessive, the heir to a criminal empire she has been investigating for years. She shot him in a parking garage six months ago and was told he did not survive. He is standing in front of her, very much alive, telling her that the moment she pulled that trigger she was bound to him.
He is also telling her something else.
Something about a fire, twenty years ago. A burning building. Two children on a curb. A promise made before either of them knew what promises cost.
A scar on her left wrist that she has never been able to explain.
BOUND TO THE BEAST is a dark, slow-burn romance about the woman who forgot and the man who never could. About a love that survived twenty years of silence and one very bad decision with a loaded weapon. About what it means to be found - not rescued, not claimed, not possessed - but truly, completely, on purpose found - by someone who decided, at five years old, that certain things were simply not optional.
It is also about what it costs.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Dark romance with genuine emotional depth
- Enemies-to-lovers done right
- A hero who is dangerous but never cruel
- A heroine who never loses herself
- Slow burn that earns every moment
- Found family - Second-chance romance
- Childhood promise storylines - Morally complex heroes with hidden hearts
- Gripping dual storylines of love and justice
