Only Monsters Know the Way Out

She designs rooms no one can escape.
He knows every door she has ever opened.

Cassia Reed has built her career creating beautiful traps immersive rooms designed to expose what people do when every easy choice disappears. But when she is invited to Blackthorn, an isolated hotel overlooking a violent sea, the commission becomes disturbingly personal.

Waiting inside is Kieran Vale.

Cold, brilliant, and dangerously observant, Kieran knows Blackthorn's hidden architecture. He knows the truth surrounding Cassia's brother's death. Most terrifying of all, he has been watching Cassia since long before she arrived.

When a storm cuts the hotel off from the mainland and its guests become subjects in a brutal psychological experiment, Cassia must work with the man she has every reason to fear. Each room demands a confession. Every unlocked door reveals another lie. And the closer Cassia comes to the truth, the harder it becomes to separate danger from desire.

Kieran wants her with an obsession that borders on ruin but Cassia refuses to mistake possession for love.

To survive Blackthorn, they must confront the question neither of them can escape:

Can a monster love someone without turning that love into another cage?

Only Monsters Know the Way Out is a dark psychological romance filled with obsession, surveillance, forced proximity, morally gray characters, dangerous secrets, emotional tension, and a love story in which freedom matters as much as desire.