Hide and Seek: A Dark Stalker Romance

Hide and Seek (Hide and Seek Duet, Book 1)

Author: Sheridan Anne

Genre: Dark Romance / Stalker Romance / Psychological Thriller / Forbidden Romance

Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5

Genre

Someone is leaving Harper-Rayn messages from beyond the grave. And the man hiding behind the mask has no intention of letting her escape.

As a forensic pathologist in the small town of Blackstone, Harper-Rayn is no stranger to death. She's spent countless hours uncovering secrets on her autopsy table, believing there's nothing the darkness can show her that she hasn't already seen.

Until the bodies start delivering messages.

Messages meant specifically for her.

What begins as a disturbing mystery quickly becomes a deadly game orchestrated by a mysterious masked killer.

Every new corpse brings another clue. Every message draws Harper deeper into a twisted obsession she never agreed to become part of.

And one wrong move could cost her everything.

Because her stalker doesn't just want her attention. He wants to possess her—dead or alive.

As the threats escalate, Harper finds herself seeking protection from Knight Slater, the dangerously attractive leader of Blackstone's SWAT team.

Knight is strong, commanding, and everything Harper has ever wanted in a man.

There's just one very complicated problem.

He's her step-uncle.

Their attraction is forbidden, but with Harper's life hanging in the balance, Knight refuses to keep his distance.

Protecting her becomes more than an obligation.

It becomes an obsession of his own.

As their forbidden connection intensifies, Harper is caught between a ruthless masked predator determined to claim her and a dangerously protective man willing to risk everything to keep her alive.

But in a game where desire and death are dangerously intertwined, trusting the wrong person could be fatal.

Because sometimes the monster hiding in the shadows isn't the only one willing to do anything to have you.

Dark, twisted, and intensely seductive, Hide and Seek is a pitch-black stalker romance filled with psychological mind games, forbidden attraction, dangerous obsession, and a masked killer who refuses to take no for an answer.

Tropes / Mood

Dark Stalker Romance • Masked Stalker • Forbidden Romance • Step-Uncle Romance • Age Gap • SWAT Team Leader MMC • Forensic Pathologist FMC • Touch Her and Die • Protective MMC • Obsessive MMC • Psychological Thriller • Serial Killer Mystery • Deadly Games • Hidden Messages • Murder Investigation • Forced Proximity • Morally Gray Characters • Taboo Romance • High Angst • Dark Suspense • Extremely High Spice

Reader Note: This is Book 1 of the Hide and Seek Duet, a pitch-black dark romance intended for mature readers. Contains disturbing themes, stalking, violence, and potentially triggering content. The story continues in Ready or Not (Book 2).