“In sickness and in health… the kind of sickness that crawls under our skin and builds scars from the inside out.”
Cam and Lakey thought the worst was behind them. They survived the system. They survived each other. They built something brutal and beautiful from the wreckage of two lives the world tried to throw away.
They were wrong.
When Cam’s memories start fracturing, he realizes the box he built in his head wasn’t just holding trauma. It was holding evidence. Someone experimented on him as a child, and the flashbacks are tearing through every wall he’s ever built.
Lakey is unravelling too. Blackouts she can’t explain. Memories of a place she’s never been. Then she finds a photograph of a little girl with Cam’s dark eyes and her blonde hair… a girl who shouldn’t exist.
When they break into the orphanage where it all began, what they find in the basement is worse than anything the system ever did to them. Laboratories. Tanks. Records with their names on them. And a conspiracy so deep it was designed before they were born.
They wanted answers… now they have them.
And the truth is going to tear them apart before it sets them free.
Wicked Nightmare is book one of the Shattered Souls main trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. Books must be read in order to fully understand the universe.
TROPES:
Dark psychological romance
Romantic tragedy
Childhood foster siblings to lovers
Codependent / obsessive love
Morally black protagonists (both MMC and FMC)
Possessive / protective MMC
Feral FMC
Touch her/him and die
Secret organization / dark conspiracy
Recovered memories / flashbacks
Underground laboratories
Who is she? (mystery child)
Found family (dark)
Dual POV
He fell first
Only soft for her
Villain romance / Anti-heroes
Who did this to you?
Ride or die
Us against the world
Explicit spice