TAKEN
He has been watching her for months, and when the danger in her life gets too close, he takes her somewhere safe and doesn’t let her leave. TAKEN is a series of standalone dark captive romances with obsessive, protective heroes, dubious consent, and a guaranteed happy ending. For readers 18+. All Piper Kane books are free in Kindle Unlimited.
The Night Shift
He’s been watching her for four months. When her ex came back, he stopped watching.
Robin works two jobs, hides money in textbook spines, and tells herself she’s fine. She’s not fine. She knows what Rick’s escalation sounds like — she’s heard it before — but she doesn’t have anywhere to go.
Cole does.
He’s been watching the security cameras at the bar since the night she served him coffee with two sugars and didn’t notice him at all. He noticed her. He noticed the flinch. He noticed Rick.
When Rick crosses a line, Cole is done watching.
What follows is not what she expected. It’s darker than that, stranger than that — and his hands know exactly how to make her body stop arguing before her mind catches up.
The door isn’t locked. She hasn’t tried it.
The Night Shift is a dark captive romance — obsessive hero, forced proximity, and a heroine who starts counting the reasons to stay. For readers 18+ who enjoy dark, possessive romance with dubcon elements. Standalone with full HEA and pregnancy epilogue.
Safe House
He said he was keeping her safe. He just didn’t mention she couldn’t leave.
Moira has been running for two years. New city, new name, new bruises she’s learned to cover. When a stranger pulls over on a dark highway and offers warmth and a safe place to sleep, she’s desperate enough to say yes.
She doesn’t notice the locks until it’s too late.
Declan is the kind of big that makes her ex seem like a warning she should have taken seriously. He knows about the bruises before she shows him. He knows her coffee order, her sleep schedule, the way she goes still when someone raises their voice. He’s been paying attention for a long time.
He says she’s safe now. He’s right.
He also says she’s staying.
He’s right about that too.
Safe House is a standalone dark captive romance. The man who was supposed to rescue her decided to keep her instead.
Blood Ties
Her family was her first prison. His is the one she doesn’t want to leave.
Maya has never known freedom. Her parents control her money, her schedule, her whole life. Her brother has been taking things from her since she was a child. She rents from a landlord she’s never spoken to and tells herself at least the apartment is hers.
It isn’t.
Jack has owned her building for years. He’s heard everything through the walls. He knows exactly what’s been done to her and exactly who’s been doing it. He’s been waiting for the moment it escalates past the point of patience.
When that moment comes, he doesn’t ask if she wants help. He puts her in his car and drives her somewhere no one in her family will ever find her. It’s the nicest place she’s ever been. The doors lock. She isn’t leaving.
She already knows what captivity feels like. This is nothing like what she knows.
Blood Ties is a standalone dark captive romance. He took her from the people who had her first — and made sure they couldn’t take her back. For readers 18+ who enjoy dark, possessive romance with dubcon elements. HEA guaranteed.
The Cleaning Girl
Eight months. That’s how long Gabriel Kessler has been watching her through the cameras he installed just for this.
Marisol Reyes needs this job. Single mom, deadbeat ex, a daughter to feed — she doesn’t have room in her life to notice the man who owns the estate she cleans every Wednesday. Except she does notice. The camera domes that track her a beat too long. The house that never feels quite as empty as it should. The itch at the back of her neck that says someone’s always there, always watching, always one step ahead of her.
She tells herself it’s nothing. She tells herself that every week for eight months.
Then the doors lock.
Gabriel didn’t plan on wanting her this much. He planned everything else — the room he built for her daughter before Marisol ever knew she’d need it, the calls he made to make sure her little girl was safe before he made his move, the exact moment he’d stop watching and start keeping. Patience was never a virtue for him. It was a countdown.
She fights him. Her body doesn’t.
Now she’s exactly where he’s wanted her since the first Wednesday — and he has no intention of ever letting her go.
Dark captive romance. Obsessive reclusive hero. Single mother heroine. Surveillance kink. Size difference. He planned everything, down to the room he built for her daughter. Dubious consent. Guaranteed HEA, pregnancy epilogue included. Reader discretion advised.
Better Monster
She was never going to leave on her own. So the man who’d been watching her for seven months decided for her.
Cleo tells herself it’ll get better.
She’s been telling herself that for two years.
She’s good at long sleeves in summer now. Good at patching drywall, at listening for his footsteps, at making herself small. It isn’t a life. It’s a thing she survives.
Beckett Hale is the quiet donor at the shelter. Big checks, hard eyes, a question prepared every Tuesday. He noticed the bruises before anyone else did. She told herself it was none of his business.
She was wrong.
She wakes up in his house — warm, clean, more beautiful than anywhere she’s ever slept. Her cats are already there. Already fed. Already safe.
He didn’t just take her.
He took everything she would have stayed for.
Beckett isn’t gentle and he doesn’t apologize. He bought her building four months ago. He knows how she takes her coffee, what her cats eat, which Saturday she spent teaching herself to patch a wall. And the man who put those bruises on her is in a hospital in another state, learning what happens to men who touch what Beckett has decided is his.
He’s a monster.
He’s just a better one than the last.
The terrible part isn’t the locked door. It’s that the cage is kinder than any free day she ever had.
She keeps waiting to want to run.
She keeps not running.
A dark captive romance with an obsessive, protective hero, captivity-as-comfort, and a dark-to-light happily-ever-after. He saw what she couldn’t admit — then fixed it without asking. Reader discretion advised. Check warnings inside.
Dirty Badge
Her husband is a dirty cop. She wants the man he’s dirty for.
My husband is a dirty cop. The man he’s dirty for has been sitting at my kitchen table for a year.
I’ve made Santino Ferraro coffee. I’ve gone upstairs while he and Aaron talk business, and I’ve stood in the hallway afterward waiting for my body to calm down. I’ve never said one word to him that my husband didn’t hear.
I can’t. Aaron reads my phone and tracks my car. The last time I stood up to leave a room, he put me back in my chair by the arm.
So I’ve been building a case against my husband in secret, and hiding it under the bathroom floor.
Then Aaron picks up a week of night shifts, and Santino comes up my stairs.
He knows about the folder. He’s known for months. He knows exactly where my husband will be all week, and he’s done waiting for me to look at him.
I should be terrified of him.
I’ve wanted him for a year.
A standalone dark captive romance with an obsessive criminal hero, a heroine who wanted him first, and a pregnancy HEA.
Contains captivity, dubious consent, coercive control in her marriage, and corrupt police. This is a fantasy. HEA guaranteed.