Bone & Briar

She wasn't supposed to find peace. She was supposed to find him.Eden Clarke is running. A viral scandal destroyed her career, her reputation, and every relationship she ever built. When she rents an isolated cabin deep in the Appalachian mountains, she's not looking for love. She's looking for silence.She finds Silas Boone instead.He's the local woodsman - massive, quiet, and unsettlingly capable. He fixes her broken furnace. He brings firewood through a blizzard. He shows up exactly when she needs him, every single time, like the mountain itself sent him.But Silas wasn't sent. He was waiting.For months, he's been watching. Preparing the cabin. Disabling her car. Cutting the only road out. Every crisis that drives Eden closer to him was engineered by his hands - the same hands that hold her at night, the same hands she's beginning to crave with a desperation that terrifies her.By the time she discovers the truth - the surveillance photos, the stolen belongings, the shrine hidden in his shed - Eden faces a choice no woman should have to make: escape back to a world that already destroyed her, or stay with the man who built her cage and pray that what she feels for him is real.The Weight of Ruin is a full-length dark romance with stalker/captive themes, forced proximity, morally gray characters, explicit content, and a dark HFN ending. This book contains dubious consent, psychological manipulation, and an obsessive hero who does not apologize. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Sloane Vance writes dark romance for women who read past midnight with the lights off. Her books feature morally bankrupt heroes, psychologically complex heroines, and the kind of love stories that leave bruises. She believes the best fiction lives in the space between what you want and what you'd never admit to wanting. When she's not writing, she's probably in the woods. Don't come looking.

She wasn't supposed to get in the truck.Harper Quinn is running. From a man who spent four years dismantling her piece by piece. From a life that shrank until the only thing left was the sound of his voice telling her she was wrong, she was crazy, she was nothing without him. She has a dying car, a duffel bag full of everything she owns, and a direction - west - that feels like freedom for the first time in her adult life.Then the car dies on a stretch of Wyoming highway where the cell towers don't reach and the darkness goes on forever.He appears like an answer to a prayer she didn't say out loud.Cade Lawson is six-foot-three of silence, diesel grease, and absolute certainty. He drives an eighteen-wheeler with no company logo and no set route. He doesn't ask questions. He doesn't make small talk. He offers her warmth, a ride to the next town, and the kind of calm her nervous system hasn't felt in years.Harper tells herself it's just a ride.But Cade doesn't do anything by accident. He knows her name before she gives it. He knows her car was going to die - because he made sure of it. He's been watching her for weeks, studying the fractures another man left behind, and he has a plan for every single one of them.The thing about Cade's cage is that it doesn't feel like a cage. It feels like the first safe place she's ever known. And by the time she finds the notebook - by the time she reads the entries and understands what he's done - she has to answer a question no self-help book ever prepared her for:What do you do when the monster is the only one who makes the nightmares stop? Sloane Vance writes dark romance for women who read past midnight with the lights off. Her books feature morally bankrupt heroes, psychologically complex heroines, and the kind of love stories that leave bruises. She believes the best fiction lives in the space between what you want and what you'd never admit to wanting. When she's not writing, she's probably in the woods. Don't come looking.