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Lights Out

Into Darkness #1 / 3 ✓
by Navessa Allen
Lights Out (Into Darkness #1) by Navessa Allen
★ 8.00 / 1
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The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?

I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.

Trauma nurse Alyssa Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.

I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.

Joshua Hammond has an infamous father—the kind of man that true-crime podcasts love talking about. He’s spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.

Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.

Lights Out is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally grey male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the TWs at the beginning of the book.

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Release date: February 14, 2024
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Navessa Allen

Navessa Allen

Navessa Allen writes the kind of romance that refuses to play it safe. Her novels walk straight into the shadows, where obsession, power, and desire clash, and dare readers to follow. With a mix of raw intimacy, sharp dialogue, and unpredictable turns, her stories invite you into worlds where love is never neat but always unforgettable.

Allen’s path to publishing was anything but ordinary. Born the youngest of five, she grew up tucked away in the mountains, often left to her imagination while her siblings roamed the woods. That solitude shaped her early storytelling voice, one rooted in longing and curiosity about what lies beneath the surface of people and places. Later, her adult life carried her across a startling range of careers: she engineered flight simulators, bartended in the Caribbean, farmed in rural New England, served in the military, and ran her own business in Maryland. Each chapter gave her a different lens on human tension, resilience, and the stakes of survival, lessons she now threads through her fiction.

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Her breakout Into Darkness series began with Lights Out, a novel that stormed into the romance community with its blend of dark temptation, trauma, and magnetic danger. Its sequel, Caught Up, pushed those boundaries further, pulling readers into a story that is as much about power and identity as it is about passion. Together, these books cemented her reputation as a writer who does not just deliver heat, but uses it to illuminate vulnerability, secrets, and the fragile balance of trust.

Though her writing thrives on high stakes and dark corners, Allen’s own life is rooted in something quieter. She lives in northern New England on a two-hundred-year-old farm with her husband, a few cats, and a scatter of farm animals. That grounding space gives her the freedom to explore the riskier, more dangerous landscapes of the heart on the page.

Her readers often say the same thing: that her characters feel alive, flawed, and achingly real. In Allen’s books, romance is not an escape into perfection, it is a journey into the places we try to hide from, and the rare connections strong enough to bring us back into the light.

Into Darkness

The Into Darkness series pulls readers into a world where survival is as much about navigating fractured loyalties as it is about facing the dangers of a collapsing society. Set against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic landscape, the story thrives on atmosphere with ruined cities, harsh frontiers, and the unrelenting tension of lives balanced on the edge of ruin.

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What makes this series resonate is not just its haunting world-building, but the way its characters carry the scars of both past and present. Every alliance feels fragile, every betrayal leaves echoes, and the line between hero and villain is rarely clear. This is a tale where hope is a dangerous luxury, yet it flickers stubbornly in the dark, keeping the reader invested in the struggle for more than just survival.

Written with a raw and immersive style, the series captures both the brutality and the intimacy of human connection when the world has stripped everything else away. Fans of dystopian fiction and grim survival tales will find themselves drawn to its slow-burning intensity and the depth of its emotional stakes.

Into Darkness is less about grand battles and more about the quiet choices that shape destinies in a world where every step forward comes at a cost. It is a story for readers who crave atmosphere, complexity, and the uneasy beauty of resilience found in the shadows.


Into Darkness consists of two books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Lights Out (Into Darkness #1)
★ 8.00 / 1
Caught Up (Into Darkness #2)
⧗ 10.00 / 1
Game On (Into Darkness #3)
⧗ 10.00 / 1

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10/11/2025
Päivi Pakarinen avatar
Päivi Pakarinen
9 books, 7 reviews
★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8 / 10

Pretty good, i like it!

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