Make It Hurt (A Dark Stalker Romance)

Ten years after her father vanished at the hands of a serial killer known as The Carver, Kennedy has two choices: stay silent or start talking. She chooses the microphone.

When Kennedy launches her true-crime podcast alongside her best friend, she hopes the spotlight will finally crack open the cold case that shattered her childhood. Instead, it cracks open something far more dangerous. The debut episode barely airs before the first note appears — unsigned, intimate, and impossible. Someone has been watching her. Someone who knows exactly how to make her skin crawl.

*Make It Hurt* is a breathlessly dark stalker romance that weaponizes tension on every page. As a masked predator infiltrates Kennedy's home, her routines, and her carefully constructed sense of safety, the psychological cat-and-mouse game between them takes a devastating turn. He isn't just watching her — he's been *waiting* for her. Years of obsession have led to this moment, and he has no intention of letting her go.

Kennedy knows she should run. Every rational instinct screams it. But the same darkness that drew her to true crime, to The Carver's crimes, to the worst corners of human nature, pulls her toward *him* in ways she refuses to name out loud.

Stella Hart crafts