eyebrows. He was amusing, cute.
“Oh, Wolfgang, my wonderful lover… I have killed a thousand humans, and together we will kill a thousand more. It is what we do. You and him? You are amateurs.”
Then she smiled with her mermaid teeth. “This is why these are sharp. We are predators. Invisible, unseen, unstoppable when we want to be.”
“Monsters.” His eyes were wide.
“Mmm. That too. Now rest, my love.”
“Tell me about you and Merrick. How did he find you?”
“He waited near your beach. He had dared to question other merfolk and they told him it is the depth of the passion that helps to transform a human. For over a hundred years, I stayed away from my kind. Because of him, I could hope. He is why you survived. Merrick is brazen and courageous.”
“I guess it comes with being a truly evil bastard.”
“Shush. I like him.” She pressed his eyes closed with kisses, making him sigh, then she snuggled in against his chest. “When you are ready, I will show you my world.”
Once upon a time, she had wanted to kill herself but not anymore, not when she had these two. Loneliness had been banished.
The ocean gently rocked them, making their beautiful tails move in the currents, as if it approved of these three precious beings, these pretty, pretty killers.
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CLOCKWORK STALKER follows
What if the storybook hero becomes the villain?
She is my arch enemy’s niece.
I’m an arrogant, controlling bastard, an excellent detective, and women are turning up dead and bound, with strange marks on their bodies.
This is the least appropriate time for me to fall in lust with the enemy.
Obsession is the sign of a man who is losing control.
Be punctual for this appointment Miss Moriarty.
I have things I need to do. Filthy, perverted things.
This is an erotic Sherlock Holmes romance with a hint of Cthulhu and horror.
With his shoes barely making any sound as he placed them on each tread of the stairs, Sherlock descended the last two steps. From the top, he’d seen what was down here—Willa, nude, blindfolded with red cloth, and bound to a rectangular table. Her hands were tied together at the wrists and above her head, while the ropes leading from her ankles pulled apart her thighs, for they were tied to separate table legs.
This threatened to take his breath away, to leave him swimming in lust like some uncontrolled beast. He was a man, not an animal, and a better example of a man than most of those outside on the streets.
Yet her presence had swallowed him and the room.
Nothing existed except her and the warning drumbeat of his heart, and so he made himself stop and look.
The house above was safe. He should be deliberate and precise, he had plenty of time.
No one would be coming to disturb him.
He made himself take in everything here, as if this were an average crime scene: the stains and moisture on the plastered walls, the small, waist-high table, the healthy pinkness of her feet and hands…
The coolness of the air that made her nipples jut upward in the center of her areolas.
The neat triangle of her scarlet pubic hair, and the line of her slit where even now moisture glistened… and the smallness of her toes.
Sherlock inhaled, exhaled, and shut his eyes. Listen to the beat of the blood. Make the body obey. Turn the eyes elsewhere.
He pressed his lips together.
Except this was not an average crime scene. He had her naked, helpless, and alone.
The room was dominated by this massive elephant of a table that you’d need a lorry or four men to shift. The floor beneath was stained where the stone tiles met. Sherlock knelt and scraped a dark red substance from the grout into a bottle and stoppered it. If human blood, the Uhlenhuth Test would detect it.
On the table between her spread legs was a large wooden dildo and for a second he was angry—at the men and what they must have contemplated doing to her, and at himself for how tempted he was. He moved on.
The small, round table held a tray with a hypodermic syringe and a vial. He paused to read the label, check the level of fluid, and to collect himself. The languid rise and fall of her breasts said she was under the influence of the drug, as did the bleb of blood at her inner elbow. With the blindfold on, she couldn’t know how intently he stared, nevertheless this was a beginning, and he refused to begin in any way except perfection.
With a gentle touch, he rolled down the blindfold, enough to let him lift an eyelid and see her pupil. It was constricted more than normal considering her eyes had been covered. He loosened the cloth, slid it aside, and still she barely stirred.
A chair waited in a shadowed corner. He carried it closer, beneath the dangling electric light then untied both her feet but left her hands bound. It should not take long for her to rouse. Already she moved, showing signs the sedation was lessening. In that respect, her laudanum habit was to her advantage.
The edge of the table was cool under his palms as he leaned over her body.
Such lush beauty. The swell of her breasts and sweep of her hips and waist stirred him carnally.
He would not touch her.
He would not.
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Recent releases
CLOCKWORK STALKER – a dark, twisted, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Moriarty romance
THE PRINCESS TIED – a fantasy romance. Inspired by The Princess Bride
RULED – Dark Sci-fi romance
CONDEMNED – Dark Reverse Harem Sci-fi Romance
BEAST HORDE TRILOGY BOXSET
Pierced Hearts Series – contemporary BDSM and dubcon/ noncon series
TAKE ME, BREAK ME
KLAUS – A NOVELLA
BIND AND KEEP ME
MAKE ME YOURS EVERMORE
SEIZE ME FROM DARKNESS
YIELD
THE COMPLETE PIERCED HEARTS BOXSET – all six books in one volume
Dark Hearts Trilogy – dark romances. Contemporary BDSM and dubcon/ noncon series
WICKED WAYS
WICKED WEAPON
WICKED HUNT
DARK HEARTS BOXSET – contains Wicked Ways, Wicked Weapon, Wicked Hunt
WOLFE – a spin-off novel from the Dark Hearts trilogy
USED – an erotic horror spinoff from Dark Hearts (not a romance!)
MESMER – a dark romance cowritten with Jennifer Bene and based on my Dark Hearts series
Dark Monster Fantasy Series
PREY
STEEL
BLADE
DARK MONSTER FANTASY BOXSET – pansy-dark scifi romances
Preyfinders Series (alien invasion scifi)
PRECIOUS SACRIFICE
INTIMIDATOR
DEFILER
PREYFINDERS: THE TRILOGY BOXSET
Preyfinders spinoff novel CYBERELLA
The Machinery of Desire Series – dystopian slaveworld series with kink and dubcon/ noncon
ACQUIRED POSSESSION
CLAIMED POSSESSION
FATED POSSESSION – a novella first published in the alien alphas boxset
BRANDED POSSESSION
EXQUISITE POSSESSION
MACHINERY OF DESIRE – THE COMPLETE BOXSET
The Steamwork Chronicles Series
Iron Dominance
Lust Plague
Steel Dominance
THE STEAMWORK CHRONICLES BOXSET – all three books in one volume
The Beast Horde Trilogy – dystopian sci-fi warrior romance
VARGR
RUTGER
CYN
BEAST HORDE TRILOGY BOXSET
Squirm Files Series – tentacle sex spoofs of erotic romance and monster stories
SQUIRM
STRUM
THE WELL-HUNG GUN
SQUIRM FILES SERIES BOXSET
CATACLYSM BLUES
(A free kinky scifi novella)
Others
ROUGH SURRENDER – a BDSM-themed, historical romance set in Cairo in 1910
MY ROMANCE CURSE (erotic romcom)
FAN ANONYMOUS
SANTA WITH A K – A Naughty Xmas Fairy Tale
31 FLAVORS OF KINK (based on a true story)
THREE DAYS OF DOMINANCE
NIGHTMARE RISING – a dark contemporary paranormal story cowritten with Nicolette Hugo
Magience series – epic fantasy
MAGIENCE
NEEDLE RAIN
The Badass Brats Series (contemporary BDSM romances with Mff)
THE DOM WITH A SAFEWORD
THE DOM ON THE NAUGHTY LIST
THE DOM WITH THE PERFECT BRATS
THE DOM WITH THE CLEVER TONGUE
Acknowledgements & Copyright
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Cari Silverwood
Editor: Nerine Dorman
Cover Artist: Cari Silverwood
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
An eternal thank you to my beta readers Emma Rose, Janine Peta, and Louise Hallet.