Captive Liberty by Elizabeth Knox

She survived war. She won’t survive him.

Liberty came home looking for peace. What she found was a trap eight years in the making.
Elias Ashford was her best friend’s brother—the one who watched too closely, wanted too much. She joined the military to escape him.
But some men don’t let go. They just learn patience.
Now Elias owns everything—the town, the businesses, the 4th of July celebration where the whole county will gather to watch fireworks explode over his land.
And Liberty? She’s about to learn that the only freedom she’ll ever have is the freedom to surrender.

***A standalone 4th of July dark romance. Contains obsessive surveillance, psychological manipulation, forced proximity, dubious consent, and a man who spent eight years ensuring she’d have nowhere left to run.