BURNED INTO YOU: A Dark Romance Thriller
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She built her career on winning. This time, winning destroyed everything.
Sera Voss is the most brilliant defense attorney in Charlotte. Cold. Precise. Unstoppable. She has never lost a case — and she has never questioned a client.
Until Marcus Hale.
Until she stood in a courtroom and delivered the performance of her career and watched a murderer walk free. Until the death threats started. Until she fled to her dead grandmother's house on a remote mountain and tried to outrun the one thing no amount of legal brilliance could fix.
Her conscience.
He lost everything because of her. Now he's standing on her doorstep.
Rhett Gallagher was the lead detective on the Hale case. He spent eleven months building a case against a killer. She tore it apart in three weeks. He resigned the day after the verdict.
He didn't come to the mountain to forgive her.
He came for the truth. He came to look the woman who destroyed his case in the eye and ask the question no one else had the courage to ask:
Do you know what you did?
She knows. And it's eating her alive.
Trapped together by a mountain storm, Sera and Rhett are forced into a confrontation that neither of them can walk away from — an explosive collision of guilt and grief, anger and attraction, that strips them both down to the bone.
She sees a man who carries his dead partner's memory like a wound that won't close.
He sees a woman who is punishing herself more thoroughly than he ever could.
And between them — in the charged, electric, impossible space between blame and desire — something begins that terrifies them both.
But the case isn't over.
When Rhett reveals that Marcus Hale may have killed before — a missing woman named Lena Marsh, gone without a trace four years earlier — Sera faces an impossible choice.
Use every skill that made her a devastating defense attorney to build the case that could put her own former client behind bars.
Risk her career. Her license. Her life.
And trust the man who came to destroy her with the one thing she's never given anyone:
The truth.
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About the author
Sandeep Rao writes dark, emotionally intense fiction about damaged people, dangerous love, and the invisible forces that shape who we become — and who we lose along the way.
His work lives at the intersection of psychological thriller and deep romance — stories where the mystery isn't just what happened but who we are when everything we believed about ourselves turns out to be wrong.
He believes that the best love stories are the ones that scare you. That silence is not the absence of something — it's the presence of everything that hasn't been said yet. And that every reader who picks up a book is trusting a stranger with their time and their heart.
