Knox by Nicole Abrams

She ran from a past she can’t name. He married her to keep her alive.

Sloane Mercer doesn’t talk about Chicago. She doesn’t talk about her father, the pristine hospital wings, or the girls who never made it out. When Knox Turner found her in a freezing parking lot two years ago, she took his hand—and his last name—without looking back.

Knox doesn’t ask questions his wife won’t answer. He married her to keep her safe, fell in love somewhere between the vows and the silence, and built a life around the pieces she’s willing to give. But when a trafficking ring explodes into Willowridge, the past Sloane buried comes clawing back.

The names she won’t say are showing up in club intel. The girls she couldn’t save are being pulled from shipping containers. And Knox is getting closer to a truth that could destroy them both.

Because Sloane’s father didn’t just ruin lives from a distance. He forced her to witness things no one should survive—and she ran before she could become the monster he was building.

Some secrets are too dark to speak.

Some pasts are too bloody to outrun.

And some loves are the only thing worth burning for.