Cut to The Bone

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He didn't hunt her. He studied her until he knew exactly what she wanted.

Elias Thorne repairs broken things. Million-dollar timepieces. Men who deserve worse. His kills are meticulous, signed with watch faces on cooling flesh. He has never wanted a witness. Never left a trace. Until he discovers the woman who cleaned his last scene saw his mistake, understood his signature, and buried the evidence anyway.

Vera Corvus built her life on proximity to violence. She handles what others flinch from. She doesn't want. She doesn't need. But when a man with surgical precision asks her dangerous questions, she answers. When he offers confinement with rules that restrict everything except her power, she considers. When he confesses what he is and what he wants from her, she doesn't run.

She lets him in.

Their cage has locks on both sides. Their games have teeth. What he demands isn't safe. What she surrenders isn't weakness. In the space between predator and prey, they're discovering the most dangerous addiction isn't the hunt.

It's choosing the hand that holds the leash