Deeper

She walked into his flat in October as another man's wife.By December she had moved his side table six inches.By January she was running his meetings.Tanya Bartlett was supposed to be a woman in hiding. After twelve yearsmarried to a Metropolitan Police sergeant who beat her, lied to her, andtook her to the edge of what a person can survive, she went to ground inthe flat of the only man who could keep her alive - Chris Ward, theoperator who had spent four and a half years dismantling her husband andwho had reasons of his own for doing it.She was meant to wait. She was meant to be safe. She was meant to letthe work happen around her.She did none of those things.DEEPER is the second book of the Preying Series. Set across the fourmonths following the events of VEIL, it is the slow, exact account of awoman discovering the shape of her own intelligence inside the apparatusof a man who built her surveillance and called it protection. Thecardigan she leaves on the chair. The wardrobe she empties one piece ata time. The bag she packs and unpacks and packs again. The four camerasin the corners of the flat that she has known about since the firstweek. The man she goes to see in Hampstead without telling Ward she isgoing. The gun she has been carrying for a fortnight that he does notknow about. The keys to the safe that he gives her in January, believinghe is the one giving them.Ward thought he was keeping her.He was not.This is a dark romance. It does not flinch. It contains explicit content,on-page coercive control, references to domestic abuse, and the slowpsychological work of a woman becoming the person her husband told herfor twelve years she could not be. It is also a love story. The twothings are not separable in this book and the book does not pretend theyare.For readers of dark contemporary romance who want their heroinesintelligent, their heroes dangerous, and their endings earned. Read VEILfirst.Book three completes the trilogy.