Finalist / Suspense / 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
The job was to evaluate him – not to fall in love.
Working with the mentally ill is always a challenge, but one Dr. Lorelei Clayton relishes. As an up-and-coming criminal psychiatrist, she sees all sorts of patients, mostly deranged and violent. None of that prepares her for Leander Welles.
Accused of murdering four people, Leander is sent to Lorelei for an evaluation before the trial can begin. Unlike any patient she has ever encountered, he’s cultured, intelligent, and devastatingly beautiful. It isn’t long before Lorelei is drawn in by his dark magnetism, but admitting those feelings breaks the number one rule of the doctor-patient relationship.
What starts out as an ordinary case becomes an all-consuming quest to save Leander from a world intent on locking him away. The deeper she delves into his haunting past, Lorelei discovers the worst enemy of all — Leander’s own tormented mind. Even if she saves him from one, there is no guarantee she can save him from the other without losing herself along the way.
This book is an alternate POV to THE RATIONALE OF LEANDER WELLES. It is told from Lorelei's perspective and can either be read as a stand alone, or together with Leander's POV.
Attention MM fans!
You absolutely do NOT have to read this book! Please feel free to skip ahead to RATIONALE. There are some MF fade-to-black scenes, but the love/angst is MM and sets up the events in DAMNATION and WRATH.
