Be the One

Merrick

I've built my empire in the city's darkest corners. My world is violent, dangerous, and impossible to escape. Love was never in the cards for me. Until Lilith Bennett—shy, innocent, meek—appears in the most unexpected place.

Lilith

I've been fragile since birth, and my grandmother—my only family—kept me hidden from the big, bad world. When she died, I was left alone, wondering whether the world she had always warned me about was so terrible after all.

When I'm swept up in a raid, I come face-to-face with Merrick, the ruthless man who once humiliated me and awakened desires I didn't understand. Now he wants my innocence, and I'm tempted to surrender it to him. But can I enter his violent world and walk away from it unscathed? Or will his obsession and passion burn me and his city to the ground?