Tell Me to Stay

Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again—and she's about to walk through one that may cost her everything.

She swore she was done with the shadows. Done with the lies, the danger, and the intoxicating darkness that nearly consumed her. But when the past reaches out with cold, deliberate hands, her carefully rebuilt life begins to crack at the seams. The world of crime and deception she fled doesn't negotiate—it simply reclaims what it believes it owns.

Then there's Nicholas Crawford.

Dangerous, broken, and magnetic in ways that defy reason, Nicholas arrives with an offer wrapped in threat and promise in equal measure. He is not a man who asks twice. Their history crackles with volatility—two damaged people circling each other with equal parts hunger and suspicion, neither willing to admit how much they need the other to survive what's coming.

In this gothic romantic suspense, the atmosphere is as suffocating as the secrets that multiply with every answer they uncover. Dark corridors hide darker truths, loyalties shift like smoke, and the threats closing in around them grow disturbingly lethal. The line between ally and enemy has never been more dangerously blurred.

The third installment in Charlotte Byrd's addictive *Tell Me* series raises the stakes higher than ever, weaving obsessive tension with pulse-pounding mystery. When trust is a liability and desire is a weapon, can she afford to let Nicholas Crawford in—and can she afford not to?