Drawn Apart - A Novel

“Mercedes Ron knows how to ratchet up the tension and keep us turning the pages, as she expertly mingles thrills with high emotion and jaw-dropping twists.” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Served Him Right

The sequel to Drawn Together continues the dark, addictive adult romantic thriller saga where obsession deepens, danger escalates, and love becomes even more perilous.

Marfil Cortés survived the kidnapping, but survival has only delivered her into Marcus Kozel’s hands.

Inside his beautiful Miami estate, the sea is close enough to sound like freedom and too far to reach. Marcus gives her luxury, protection, and the undivided attention of a man who believes every gift should be repaid. To anyone else, it might look like safety. To Marfil, every locked door and watchful eye is proof that being desired by Marcus is only another kind of captivity.

Sebastian Moore was supposed to be the one man who would never let that happen.

He was her bodyguard before he became the man she loved, the man who taught her what it felt like to be wanted without being owned, and the man who handed her over with a promise she no longer knows how to believe. Even in Marcus’s house, Sebastian remains the ache Marfil cannot forget, and the threat Marcus cannot ignore.

As Marcus’s obsession tightens and the truth about Marfil’s family begins to surface, protection begins to look like possession, love begins to feel like betrayal, and every secret pulls her deeper into a world where no one can be trusted completely.

Not the man who wants to keep her.

Not the man trying to find his way back to her.

And not the heart that still wants him, even after everything he has done.

But when freedom comes at a cost, how much of herself is Marfil willing to risk for the man who broke her?