Devour (The Ravens #1)

I've killed every man who's touched her. They'll make me hunt her before I can have her.

AXL

I saw Saylor Reign Carter three years ago at a gala on her daddy's arm and decided she was mine. I wasn't supposed to want her. I kill who they tell me to kill. I don't get to touch a woman until the hunt.

Four years of loyalty to the Ravens, and the body count is the only love language I'm allowed.

My little heathen likes to test me. She lets other men touch her knowing I'll make them disappear. She hasn't figured out yet what it means to be mine.

In three weeks I'm carrying her out of those woods while they all watch. She's going to wear my marks and learn what years of wanting her made me.

She will kneel and serve her king like the good girl she's meant to be.

SAYLOR

I chose to be hunted over going to auction. I'd rather run than be sold.

He kills men right in front of me. I should be horrified, but I'm not.

Axl Kade Hollister thinks he's the most dangerous thing in my life.

He has no idea.

The nightmares started years ago. I don't know what they mean. I don't know why I feel like I'm pinned down only to wake up terrified and shaking in my own bed.

Men in my world believe everything is theirs for the taking, but I've never felt more powerful than serving one of the most dangerous of them all.

The nightmares are getting worse. And I don't think they're just dreams.

I've never been safe.

Tropes: Stalker MMC · Secret Society · Hunt / Claiming Ritual · OTT Possessive/Obsessive MMC · Celibate MMC · He Falls First · Touch Her and Die · Who Hurt You? · Dom/Sub Dynamics · Praise Kink · Morally Gray MCs · Forced Proximity · FMC Who Fights Back · Found Family / Brotherhood · Unalivers · Pierced and Tattooed MMC · "Little Heathen" / "My King"

DEVOUR is an explicit, high-spice dark romance that can be read as a standalone. Morally gray characters. Secret society rules and rituals. This is Book 1 in The Ravens series. Axl and Saylor's story is complete with a HEA and no cheating. Contains very dark and intense themes that may be triggering for some readers. (Content warnings available on author website.)

Heat Level: Explicit Tone: Dark, Possessive, Angsty Series Type: Book 1 Ending: HEA POV: Dual First Person, Present Tense Content Notes: SA, Graphic Violence, Dark Themes Comp Authors: Shantel Tessier, H.D. Carlton, Penelope Douglas