Dark Rituals - Nightmare Lovers, #1

A fast-paced standalone dark romance of high stakes and dangerous love. Noir with a gothic twist. By K. J. Devoir, author of best-selling supernatural thriller Moonvine. The Initiate: "I'm not supposed to love a missing dead girl..."One year ago, Brynlee Jones was brutally attacked and threatened on the UCLA campus after witnessing a crime. After fleeing Los Angeles to start a new life in Vegas, she's determined to finish her degree while working the night shift.
But there is no escaping the past. When rich-kid law student Case Channing is given his fraternity's initiation task of finding a missing person, it leads him to Brynlee, this strange but beautiful girl, unlike anyone he's known. But meeting her becomes the most dangerous thing he's ever done, setting a deadly chain of events into motion that forces him to reckon with his family's mafia connections and the dark memories of his past.
Case doesn't know what he's up against until it's too late. Together, Case and Brynlee must find a way out.*check TW (trigger warnings) in Author's Note of book