Born of Lust

"I studied the human heart to heal it. I didn't know it was meant to be a sacrifice." Dr. Isobel Ambrose is a creature of logic. But logic couldn't save her mother, and it can't quiet the guilt screaming in her soul. Fleeing America for the cold, elegant shadows of Turin, she hopes her medical career will bury her grief. All she carries is an urn of ashes and her mother's diary—a book filled with a "madness" she was too rational to believe. Until she meets Rhys. He is a man of impossible, shattered beauty, haunted by memories that aren't his and a primal fear of the dark forces closing in to claim him. Isobel is trained to fix what is broken, but Rhys is an enigma her science can't explain—a man who feels like a hollow place in reality, a void begging to be filled. Drawn into a vortex of visceral attraction and ancient terror, Isobel becomes his protector. But in the silence of the Italian night, she discovers that the world she knew is only a thin, decaying skin. Beneath the surface lies an Inverse Tree, a dark reflection of life that feeds on sorrow and grows deep into the Abyss. To save the man she is beginning to crave, Isobel must abandon her oaths and walk a path where the light never reaches. In a world of profane rituals and divine hunger, she will learn that the most dangerous secrets aren't written in books... they are carved into the flesh. BORN OF LUST is a haunting descent into Erotic Horror and Dark Paranormal Romance. A tale of "Turin Gothic" where medicine meets the macabre, perfect for readers who crave obsessive heroes and brilliant heroines pushed to the edge.