Psycho (Necessary Evils)

August Mulvaney is a man defined by contradictions. To the world, he is a brilliant, celebrated professor born into immense wealth, his quirks excused by his towering intellect. In the shadows, however, he is a calculated predator, a ruthless vigilante operating outside the law to prune society of those who have escaped its grasp. He is precise, obsessive, and entirely lacking in empathy—until his path violently crosses with Lucas Blackwell. Lucas was once the FBI’s crown jewel, a clairvoyant agent who could sense the dark truths hidden in others. That gift turned into a curse when his discovery of a colleague’s depravity cost him his reputation, his career, and his safety. Now, living under the radar as a shell of his former self, Lucas is terrified to find himself in the sights of August Mulvaney. August doesn’t buy into psychic phenomena, but he is undeniably hooked by the frantic, fractured beautiful mess that is Lucas. What begins as a lethal threat quickly shifts into a dangerous courtship. August is a man who takes what he wants, and he has decided that Lucas belongs to him. In this high-stakes dance, the hunter is forced to prove that even a psychopath can be a protector, while the hunted must decide if the deadliest man alive is the only one who can truly set him free.