
When He Takes
Gabrielle Sands · Fallen God #2
She fell for a man who doesn't exist — and now the real him won't let her go.
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I've fallen for a monster. A man who doesn't ask for what he wants—he takes. And now, he's taken me.Rowan Miller isn’t who I thought he was. He's Nero De Luca, the ex-consigliere of a notorious New York mob family, and he's been lying to me from the moment we met.If I return home to Darkwater Hollow, it will be a death sentence.But staying with Nero means diving headfirst into the perilous underworld of New York—a place I’m ill-equipped to navigate.I should despise Nero for his betrayal, and a part of me does. But as I’m drawn deeper into his world, I begin to see that not all darkness is the same.Now, I’m caught between two worlds and two versions of a man I thought I knew. Can I trust Nero to protect me from even greater dangers?Or is my only chance at safety escaping his iron grasp and running away?~~When He Takes is book 2 of the Fallen God duet. Rowan and Blake's story begins in book 1, When He Desires.
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