I’ve been watching you for years. Following you. Waiting. If I can’t make you love me… I’ll make you fear me.
Celeste
I was so close to escaping the frozen tomb I grew up in.
Just one more season dancing in the dark for lonely men. One more pay-out, and I could vanish into a sun-drenched paradise where my father’s rage and my mother’s fanaticism could never reach me again.
No one would ever find me. No one would ever drag me back.
At least — that’s what I believed.
Pluto
The moment I saw you, I knew you were mine.
A soft, gentle thing in a brutal northern wasteland… a rare flower that shouldn’t have survived the cold.
I don’t know if I want to worship you or ruin you.
But I do know this:
I’m done watching from the shadows.
You’re in my world now—ice, darkness, obsession—and once you step inside, there’s no way out.
And now the world closes in…
Celeste has spent her life enduring the violence of a fanatical family and dreaming of escape. She’s one season away from freedom—a single winter earning enough money to disappear into warmth and safety forever.
But Pluto has been watching her far longer than she ever suspected.
In the endless Alaskan night, his obsession hardens into action. When he finally steps forward, Celeste is drawn into a perilous dance of desire, manipulation, and survival. Pluto is the only man who’s ever seen her clearly… and the one who refuses to let her go.
As the darkness tightens around them, the line between protection and possession shatters—and Celeste must decide whether she’s running from the monster in her past… or the man determined to claim her future.
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Trigger Warning: This book is filled with unhinged characters, toxic obsession, manipulative power games, and scenes of violence that may disturb or upset some readers. Nothing about these relationships is healthy. Nothing about this story is safe. Contains explicit, graphic sexual content.
