I couldn't guarantee his safety. He should be scared of me.
I was scared of me.”…

Heiress Keanna Backus is business-smart and street-naive. Something she’s kept off her resume? That she’s an untrained banshee armed with a unique—and deadly—wail. After an accident leaves Keanna with blood on her hands, she is snatched from the streets by criminals determined to weaponize the “beast” lurking within her.

If Prague is a chessboard, Arwood Sayer rules one side—and he needs Keanna, his new pawn, to find his missing daughter. Forced into service alongside Arwood’s henchmen, Keanna realizes that mastering her inner beast is the only way to outwit a man who is always two steps ahead of her.

Her only ally is another prisoner, a mage called Silas. He’s just as charismatic as he is secretive, and he has his own reasons for working with Arwood. As their forbidden relationship develops and Keanna sinks further into the world she is desperately trying to escape, she soon discovers earning her freedom may cost not just her heart—but everything she’s ever known to be true.

Control My Night is a fast-paced new adult urban/paranormal fantasy that features steamy slow-burn forbidden romance, found family, morally grey characters you’ll adore, forehead kisses, and the occasional explosion. It is the first in a planned standalone trilogy featuring different couples in a criminal underworld where mafia and supernaturals mix, and power changes hands regularly.

Content/Trigger warnings:

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Control My Night is a new adult fantasy for mature audiences and contains strong language and content some readers may find distressing including profanity, violence, alcohol use, graphic sexual content, disordered thoughts around food and self-image, death of a family member, and mentions of death during childbirth (off-page). A full list of content and/or trigger warnings can be found on my website. If there is something not included on the website that you as a reader found distressing, please contact me so it can be added.

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