I thought I wanted freedom, but I was wrong. I just needed a different kind of prison.

James

I found her locked in a tower. The girl who wrote a plea for help in her own blood.

Her note called to something dark in me, and so I returned for her and took her as mine.

Now, she seems to think I'm her angel.

She says we can be something beautiful.

I've warned her that beauty is deceitful, but she's nothing if not a believer… in us. In this.

Can I live up to what she needs from me, or will my cold heart ruin this the way it does everything good in my life?

Ellie

He rescued me from my room in the tower and set me free.

I'm lost in a new world, unable to navigate my new life.

The rules and regulations of my enforced conformity were like restraints, and with them gone, I'm unmoored.

I need a new safety and crave the certainty I had in my tower but without the pain and sorrow.

Can this brutal but beautiful man, my fallen angel, give me that? I believe so.

Slowly, one fragile step at a time, I explore my new world.

But I explore too far, and the past catches up with me in a dangerous way.

All I can hope and pray for is that I'll find redemption a second time and truly be set free.

From USA Today bestselling authors SR Jones and Silla Webb comes a twisted, angsty, age-gap romance. Tower of Pain and Sorrow is a forced proximity captive romance featuring a sweet sunshine heroine and a broody, grumpy hero with who-did-this-to-you vibes.