Your Knife, My Heart by K.M. Moronova: Deluxe Sprayed Edition (Paperback)

Survival inside the Dark Forces comes at a brutal cost. Loyalty is enforced through pain, obedience through fear. Cameron Mortem knows this better than anyone. Trained to kill without hesitation, he has earned a reputation as a weapon no one can control. An experimental drug only sharpens the danger, stripping away what little restraint he had left.

Failure sends him back to the Under Trials. No mercy. No limits. One rule stands above all others. He must not kill his new partner.

Emery Maves should already be dead. Her crimes spared her execution but dragged her into the same violent programme that forged Cameron. Assigned to work beside him, she is expected to endure the Trials and survive a man known for leaving bodies behind. What she finds instead is a fractured mind pulled between instinct and restraint.

As the Trials grow harsher, trust becomes a risk neither of them can afford. Desire cuts as deep as any blade. Each choice threatens to push Cameron past the point of control and drag Emery into the darkness with him.

Bound by violence and pressure, they walk a thin line between destruction and survival. Crossing it could mean death. Resisting it may be worse.