by M. Leighton
First published 2013
Samantha Jansen writes bestselling paranormal romances under the name Laura Drake. She is nothing like her confident public persona. Samantha is shy and insecure, haunted by a past she cannot escape. Her dreams center on Mason Strait, the broken hero from her novels who represents both her deepest desire and greatest fear. When Samantha meets corporate consultant Alec Brand, he seems like Mason brought to life. Alec is devastatingly handsome, arrogant, and intensely captivating. Samantha finds herself drawn into a reality that mirrors her fiction, unable to resist Alec's forbidden appeal just like her character Daire Kirby. She faces a choice between a man who might liberate her or destroy her completely. The stakes rise when Samantha discovers that Alec, like Mason, is built on fiction. He carries his own wounds that threaten to ruin them both. This is a story about two people hiding behind carefully constructed masks, risking everything when their real selves collide.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
319 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness