He speaks in Polaroids and violence. She collects his surveillance photos like love letters.

Chicago's most dangerous psychopath doesn't sleep—he watches. Luca Rosetti has turned insomnia into an art form, spending endless nights surveilling the one woman who makes him feel human. Faith Winters doesn't know her guardian devil exists. Not yet.

By day, Faith teaches Sunday school and reads to children at the library. By night, she's spent twelve years building a case against the man who murdered her mother. She's patient, methodical, perfect in her innocent disguise. Then her stalker introduces himself by leaving evidence of his obsession on her a Polaroid of herself, taken while she dreamed. On the back, one Protected.

She doesn't run—she leaves him a message of her own. Because beneath the cardigans and church smiles, she wants the same thing he blood, justice, and someone who understands that good girls can dream of violence too.

He's already killed nine men in her name. She's about to give him a tenth.

He kills for her. She lies for him. And somewhere between Polaroids and murder, they stop pretending either of them was ever good.

A dark mafia romance featuring surveillance as seduction, morally gray characters, and the kind of obsession that requires cleanup crews. Dual POV. Complete standalone with HEA.

Stalker romance • Psychotic hero • Good girl gone bad • Revenge plot • Instant obsession • Morally gray FMC • Touch her and die • He falls first