“I’m deathly afraid he’s taken pieces of me I’ll never get back.”

Clara Santos was never meant to survive. She was supposed to be The Chameleon’s eighth victim. Trapped in captivity where time stood still, she endured the unthinkable—only to wake in an even darker nightmare: buried alive in a coffin six feet underground. She clawed her way back to life, but her tormentor isn’t finished. Now that he knows she’s alive, he refuses to let her go—and survival is only the beginning.

FBI Special Agent Maverick Rhodes has been chasing a ghost—one who has left seven bodies in its wake. When he pulls Clara from the brink of death, the case becomes personal. The Chameleon isn’t done with her, and he’ll do whatever it takes to finish what he started. As Maverick hunts a predator whose true face has never been seen, the lines between the protector and the protected begin to blur.

With time running out and a killer closing in, Clara must confront her trauma while Maverick fights to stop the man who won’t let her escape twice.

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Trigger Warning:This book contains dark and mature themes intended for those who are 18+. Illusion of Safety deals with heavy topics that may be triggering for some readers. It contains explicit language and explicit sexual content. Additional content and trigger warnings include: Parental loss (past, not depicted), graphic physical violence, sexual assault (fades to black, not on page); PTSD, panic attacks (on page), familial estrangement due to religious beliefs, references to childhood neglect, abduction, stalking