Hunter's Shadow (Hunter's Creek)

Stolen as a child. Raised as a weapon. Broken beyond repair—

Jax has spent his entire life obeying orders. Broken, exhausted, and left for dead by the people who own him, he never expected to wake up in the care of the one man he was sent to betray.

Riley is an empath with a gift for sensing what others hide. Gentle, patient, and impossible to fool, he sees past Jax's defenses to the pain beneath. Worse, every touch calms the chaos inside Jax in a way nothing else ever has.

For the first time in his life, Jax begins to imagine a future that belongs to him.

But freedom comes with a price.

Because Jax isn't the only hostage. The people who created him still hold the one thing he can't abandon, and they'll stop at nothing to drag him back into the darkness.

Now Riley must convince Jax he's worth saving before the past catches up with them both.

And the people who created Jax come back to collect what's theirs.