Deal With The Devil

He watched her for forty-one days. Then he took her.

Novelist Ava Rose wakes in a pit beneath the Virginia woods, her hands bound, a bleeding stranger in the dark beside her. Her captor wears a mask, never raises his voice, and wants one thing: to make Grant Vance pay for what he did twenty-three years ago.

Locked in a buried Morningstar facility, Ava finds stars scratched into the walls at a child's height, a door her hands open before she does, and a file with her name on it, stamped RETAINED. She's been here before. Someone made sure she'd forget.

The man who kidnapped her is starting to look like the only one who isn't lying to her. Worse, she's starting to want him.

But every deal with the devil starts with someone who's sure they can walk away.