A killer’s Gaze
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I watched him leave a dead red rose on my best friend’s body.
Thea saw the monster in the dark—a tall figure in the shadows, a blunt pressed to his lips, and a sinister crown-and-barbed-rose tattoo crawling up his neck. He was the Red Rose Killer terrorizing the campus, and she barely escaped as the sole witness to his crime.
Determined to find justice for Maya, Thea flees seeking safety, only to walk into a far worse nightmare. Her mother is getting married this weekend, and the groom’s son is moving in.
Dangerous, cold, and breathtakingly ruthless, Emmett walks into her house looking like pure sin—covered in ink, reeking of weed, and holding a sharp blade to a girl's throat in the backyard. But it is the dark ink creeping up his jawline that freezes the blood in her veins.
Now the killer is living under her roof and sitting across from her at the dinner table.
As the police remain clueless, the terror escalates. With every new body, chilling letters mysteriously find their way directly to Thea—disturbing notes detailing each victim’s darkest, most intimate desires for the boy with the inked barbed rose on his neck. But the true horror sets in when the latest note names Thea as his final target, proving he already knows her deepest, most forbidden fantasies.
Trapped in a deadly game with a stepbrother who tracks her every move, Thea vows to expose him before she becomes his next victim. But with every heavy, hooded glance Emmett throws her way, the line between terror and obsession blurs—forcing her to face a terrifying reality: Emmett doesn't just want her silence. He wants her.
And in his house, the only thing more lethal than his blade is the secret pulling them together.
Thea saw the monster in the dark—a tall figure in the shadows, a blunt pressed to his lips, and a sinister crown-and-barbed-rose tattoo crawling up his neck. He was the Red Rose Killer terrorizing the campus, and she barely escaped as the sole witness to his crime.
Determined to find justice for Maya, Thea flees seeking safety, only to walk into a far worse nightmare. Her mother is getting married this weekend, and the groom’s son is moving in.
Dangerous, cold, and breathtakingly ruthless, Emmett walks into her house looking like pure sin—covered in ink, reeking of weed, and holding a sharp blade to a girl's throat in the backyard. But it is the dark ink creeping up his jawline that freezes the blood in her veins.
Now the killer is living under her roof and sitting across from her at the dinner table.
As the police remain clueless, the terror escalates. With every new body, chilling letters mysteriously find their way directly to Thea—disturbing notes detailing each victim’s darkest, most intimate desires for the boy with the inked barbed rose on his neck. But the true horror sets in when the latest note names Thea as his final target, proving he already knows her deepest, most forbidden fantasies.
Trapped in a deadly game with a stepbrother who tracks her every move, Thea vows to expose him before she becomes his next victim. But with every heavy, hooded glance Emmett throws her way, the line between terror and obsession blurs—forcing her to face a terrifying reality: Emmett doesn't just want her silence. He wants her.
And in his house, the only thing more lethal than his blade is the secret pulling them together.















































