He speaks in Polaroids and violence. She collects his surveillance photos like love letters.
Chicago's most dangerous psychopath doesn't sleep—he watches. Luca Rosetti has turned insomnia into an art form, spending endless nights surveilling the one woman who makes him feel human. Faith Winters doesn't know her guardian devil exists. Not yet.
By day, Faith teaches Sunday school and reads to children at the library. By night, she's spent twelve years building a case against the man who murdered her mother. She's patient, methodical, perfect in her innocent disguise. Then her stalker introduces himself by leaving evidence of his obsession on her a Polaroid of herself, taken while she dreamed. On the back, one Protected.
She doesn't run—she leaves him a message of her own. Because beneath the cardigans and church smiles, she wants the same thing he blood, justice, and someone who understands that good girls can dream of violence too.
He's already killed nine men in her name. She's about to give him a tenth.
He kills for her. She lies for him. And somewhere between Polaroids and murder, they stop pretending either of them was ever good.
A dark mafia romance featuring surveillance as seduction, morally gray characters, and the kind of obsession that requires cleanup crews. Dual POV. Complete standalone with HEA.
Stalker romance • Psychotic hero • Good girl gone bad • Revenge plot • Instant obsession • Morally gray FMC • Touch her and die • He falls first
Has anyone actually read this book before it was released? It genuinely doesn’t seem like it was edited. There are so many mistakes and inconsistencies. Sometimes the next sentence jumps to a completely different place, or it’s so disconnected from the previous paragraph that I had to stop and reread to make sure I hadn’t missed something — but I hadn’t.
A few of the errors I remember: • The first Polaroid picture that Luca leaves for Faith is described in his POV as a photo of her at her mother’s grave, but when Faith finds the picture, it has suddenly become a photo of her in a restaurant. • There’s a spicy scene where, after round one, they’re sitting next to each other on the sofa, and in the very next sentence he’s… pulling out of her. • There’s a chapter written from Luca’s POV but titled as Faith’s. • And many, many more. It’s honestly painful to read.
And last but not least: the word violence appears 80 times in this book — often in sentences you would never expect. Eighty times. Some of my favorites: • “The comfortable violence of their banter (…)” • “I taste whiskey and violence on his lips.” • “I’m written in violence now (…)” • “The afterburn of violence” • “… skin that still remembers gentler violence”
The time frame often didn’t add up and it was more obvious because the author was trying to portray the characters as obsessively counting time(With Luca even to second). For example there was one night when they ended up in her house around 9PM, had sex like 6 times he admitted that he slept 4 hours then was watching her sleep for 2 and by 8AM they were at cars dealership when he mentioned that last night he spend 6 hours researching cars for her, so how long was that night 20h?🤣🤣🤣
To summarise: very badly written and not edited, don’t waste your time.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
I quite liked the first book and I love me a psychopath so I was very drawn to the MMC and excited that his book was next, however what the holy hell was this book?! very disappointed, spelling and grammar mistakes, parts of the book didn't make sense where it has clearly been edited and then forgotten about further on, and the ending just pissed me off to be honest. worst book I've read in 2025.
Yup. Just as expected…Luca is my favorite brother. 😇 So glad I didn’t listen to myself and actually read this one. It was better than the first one. But ONLY because of Lucas character. This book too was very fast paced but I enjoyed it.
Honestly, I gave this an extra star because Luca buys Faith my car. Still some really SERIOUS continuity errors, but I was able to over look most of them this time. and the story is quite compelling. I like the angle and the arc of the characters.
Is English this authors first language? Cause some things are wicked repetitive.
I absolutely love this series and since I love psychos Luca is a great character. I am very happy that Faith was not some little mouse of a character. Can’t wait for more!