Get off on the Pain

Memphis Carter comes home from prison hoping to rebuild a relationship with his younger brother, but he's become a shadow of his former self, prone to violence he can't always control. His next-door neighbor Lyric refuses to be intimidated by him, pushing back against his darkest instincts even as an undeniable pull grows between them. Memphis knows getting close to Lyric risks crushing her the way his past has crushed everyone around him — but staying away might be the one thing he can't manage.

Victoria Ashley opens the Pain series with a raw, emotionally intense romance about a broken man forced to reckon with his past in order to have any future at all.