In The Sea Of Thorns: A Forbidden Age Gap Romance (The Blooming Romance Series)

 Roisin,

He came like a grim reaper, cloaked in darkness, yet he brought me life instead of death. Just when I thought it was the end, he became my beginning.

After I was rescued from my abductors and returned home, I began noticing a man. He would stand under the lamppost, night after night, through the rain, through the snow—always watching, always waiting. Then the roses began to appear. In my room. On my windowsill. A silent promise. A warning. Or a reminder that I was never truly alone. I should fear him. I should run.

But his presence calls to me like a whispered lullaby in the dark, both haunting and comforting all at once.

Because deep down, I already knew, he wasn’t a stranger.

He was a ghost I had yet to name.

Ghost,

I wasn’t supposed to be obsessed, but I was. I wasn’t supposed to fall, but I did.

I was meant to save her… not become her grim reaper.

She was a shattered soul, a girl who had already survived the darkness once. I was the man sent to save her. But somewhere between the shadows and the silence, I crossed a line. I became her protector. Her stalker. Her greatest sin.

She should run from me. Fear me. Hate me. But she doesn’t.

And now, neither of us can walk away.

Because the real threat isn’t me, it's the past coming to claim her. And this time, I won’t let her go. Even if I have to set the world on fire, I’ll turn it to ash just to keep her safe.