Caught Up
Book Two in the instant USA TODAY bestselling trilogy!
From the viral TikTok author of the stalker romcom, LIGHTS OUT, comes Navessa Allen’s second book in bestselling The Into Darkness Trilogy, upping the ante with voyeurism and play club kink.
“I wanted this woman, and I was a man who always got what he wanted.”
Nico “Junior” Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Junior exists in a world of violence and depravity. Men like him don’t get to have women like her. It’s why he pushed her away back in high school and kept his distance ever since.
But when Junior looks Lauren up online, he discovers the shy, bookish girl he remembers is gone. In her place is a strikingly beautiful woman whose social media is filled with scantily clad pictures of herself and a connection to a nearby play club. Junior’s innocent curiosity quickly turns into a dark obsession. Watching Lauren from a distance isn’t enough; he needs to make her his.
“He’s ruthless; a walking red flag. Good thing red is my favorite color.”
Lauren is intrigued by the mystery man who keeps showing up at her club, who tempts her white-hot desires. But as their flirty online messages stir up a deeper form of connection, Lauren worries she’s developing real feelings for this brooding stranger. As their combined desire ratchets up to a breaking point, who will seduce who?
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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.
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.
Into Darkness consists of three books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
