Quiet Is the Night Now - Marie Ann

our love rose from the ashes of my agony

Leo Douglas Harms: The Grim
An impenetrable wall of smoke and flames devoured the family I gave up everything for and I took my vengeance the only way I knew how—by becoming the very thing I ran away from. But little did I know I would inherit more than I bargained for.
Decades later and I'm burnt out, running on fumes to survive in a life I never wanted.
Then I met him. A light in the abyss.
Jaxon was beautiful—inside and out—and I found myself captivated by him in a way I had never felt. Knowing him, touching him, obliterated my soul. But in doing so, he stole something from me that was never mine to give. I tried. but my guilt was too much for even him to overshadow.
It will always be her. Them. It can't not be.

Jaxon Ashtor Fitz: His Light
I used to be an honest, selfless man. The happy, go-lucky, all around good guy, but when Leo showed up at my tattoo shop, I felt every single one of my morals escape between my lips with a breathless 'hello.'
His entire being exuded darkness; the relentless torture of his soul lingering just underneath the surface.
I was drawn to it, and him, like a moth to a flame. And when the secrets and lies started to build into a precarious fortress with me locked inside, I felt myself start to change.
His pain became mine, eroding me down until all that remained was the tiniest remnants of who I used to be. All because I fell in love with someone who could never love me back. Who refused. Who would never. Choose. Me.

Quiet Is the Night Now is a dark MM standalone romance.