I know how villains are made.I’ve watched their secrets rise from the ashes and emerge from the shadows.As part of a family tree with roots so twisted, I’m strangled by their vine.Imprisoned in a world of decadence and sin, I’ve seen Gods among men.And he is one of them.
He is the villain.He is the enemy who demands to be the lover.He is the monster who has shown me pleasure but gives so much pain.But something has changed…He’s different.Darker.Wildly possessive as his obsession with me grows to an inferno that can’t be controlled.
Yes… he is the villain. And he is the end of my beginning.

HARLOW IS HUNTING HER SISTER’S KILLER.AND COLE IS HUNTING HER.
COLE SAINTThe woman my family is looking for is the one-night stand I can’t get out of my head, and her life depends on me getting to her first.Harlow is sunshine and light.I live in the shadows, among the dark and the damned, but there’s something about Harlow that makes me want to take care of her.I can protect her from what’s coming, but first I need to find her, and I’m closing in.I learned my lesson the first time, and I won’t give her the chance to get away from me again.
HARLOW STINTONWhat are the chances that the man I shared a toe-curling, name-screaming, raging hot one-night stand with is part of the crime family that’s after me because I saw something I shouldn’t have?One hundred percent. The chances are one hundred freaking percent.At least I wasn’t stupid enough to give him my real name.Now I’m on the run with everything I own stuffed into a tattered backpack.I never thought I would see Cole again, but I was wrong, and we’re no longer strangers who shared a night.Now we’re on opposite sides of a war that threatens to tear our worlds apart.
* Brutal Saint is the second book in the Vicious Empire dark romance family saga series.
**A portion of this book was first published as a 5,000 word novelette titled, Missed Me which is no longer available.