Lock Me Away

She was sent to sedate him. He was waiting to save her.
Harper Cross works the graveyard shift at Blackwood Institute for the Criminally Insane. When a building-wide blackout traps her inside the cell of Patient 404 — a terrifyingly intelligent, hyper-observant man named Malachi Vance — she discovers the truth: the most dangerous person in the asylum isn't behind the glass. He's wearing the white coat.
Malachi engineered the blackout. Not to escape, but to lock Harper inside the only safe room in a building full of opened cages. Because the Chief of Medicine has been running lethal experiments on night-shift nurses, and Harper is next.
What follows is one endless night of pitch-black confinement, psychological manipulation, forced proximity, and a slow, devastating unraveling of every boundary Harper was trained to protect. As the asylum riots around them and armed cleaners close in, Harper must decide how far she's willing to fall to survive — and whether the monster in the cell is the only honest man she's ever met.
This is a full-length dark romance with explicit content, morally gray characters, and no redemption arc guaranteed. Reader discretion is strongly advised.