by Jessa Cross (Author), Alex McLaughlin (Cover Design by)

Bella Blackwood has been forged in loss and sharpened by survival. Raised in the foster system and haunted by the murder of her brother, she has spent years hunting the man responsible and unraveling the secrets he died trying to protect, including the truth about the father she was never meant to know.

Now a student at Wexley University, Bella lives a double life as a star dancer by day and a vigilante by night. Her mission collides with obsession when two men step into her world. Aleksandr "Lex" Barinov is a Bratva-born underground fighter with feral loyalty, and Cade Whitmore is a golden-boy artist with quiet danger in his veins. The bond that forms among them is magnetic and volatile, a connection none of them can outrun.

Bella is far more than the woman caught between them. She is the force who turned stolen Black Books into leverage against the world's most powerful crime families and used their secrets to dismantle trafficking networks that mirror her own past. She spends her nights pulling kids out of the hell she was raised in. But the shadows she fights refuse to let her go. A predator known as Luca stalks her through coded messages, twisted poems, and escalating threats, each one dragging her closer to the darkness she swore she would destroy.

As enemies close in and old vengeance resurfaces, Bella must decide whether to trust Lex and Cade to shield her, or embrace the fire inside her and become the storm that tears everything apart. Blackwood is a dark romance of obsession, loyalty, trauma, and the dangerous love that binds three lives together.

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