You’ll judge me.
Hate me and tell me I’m wrong.
Refuse to see how my darkness is what she needs.
While I don’t particularly care about your feelings in the matter, and while I pursue her despite the wedding bells that rang for another, only I can see how she is drowning beneath mediocrity.
How many times must I remind her?
It can’t matter that I am the person who ruined her life.
The man who … her life.
The man who killed her father.
The constant shadow that watches her sleep.
The lover who prefers dirty alleyways to freshly laundered sheets.
She’s mine.
Always has been.
I’m the worst thing for her, yet I’m the only salvation she knows.
He had his chance to make her happy.
He failed.
He didn’t see how she was dying inside because he couldn’t know her.
Not like I know her.
I am her stalker.
Her protector.
And the only man that can bring her back to life.
***This book contains sensitive subject matter.
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The Danger You Know by Lily White is a standalone stalker type genre. The book focuses on Ari and Adeline’s relationship. Ari is an assassin and one night after he kills Adeline’s father, he sees her through the window and becomes instantly obsessed with her and it is the first time he has felt the emotion of guilt when he has killed someone. From there we see his constant obsession with Adeline, which goes on for years in an almost cat and mouse type game between the two of them.
Ari is a dark character and although you might not agree with his methods, he certainly gets things done. His obsession with Adeline is gritty, dark and intense, he won’t let her pretend and that is something throughout the book that Adeline is good at. She is one of those characters that is intense in the role that they are playing. Mixed in with that is her sleep disorder which is intriguing as throughout the book you’re guessing about what she does know or can recall or if everything is just a product of her life.
The duel POV keeps you entertained as you get into the psyche of each character and the way the author writes, keeps you invested for every single page and you dig deep into these two amazingly broken people that only seem to be their true selves with each other. The connection between the two characters is raw, sexy and intense with some exciting twist and turns thrown in to keep you off balance.
This is a dark, titillating read which keeps you reading until the early hours of the morning…it’s just that good. With amazing writing and an intriguing story, it is certainly one of my top 2020 reads!
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This is my first Lily White Book. It is dark, dangerous and delicious. I was utterly captivated by Ari and his darkness. He is an antihero you can’t help but fall for. The twists and turns in this book had me devouring the pages and kept me up throughout the night just to finish it. I look forward to more from this author. She has made a new fan out of me!
Ari is an assassin and stalker of Adeline. It started out as protection then turned into obsession. Adeline has lost those she cares for in a tragedy. She thought the feelings of someone watching were just her demons until she meets her shadow, Ari. This is a dark, twisted tale of murder, obsession and with an age gap romance. Loved it.