HE SAVES LIVES BY DAY. HE HARVESTS ORGANS BY NIGHT. SHE’S THE SPY SENT TO STOP HIM—IF THE LIES DON’T BREAK HER FIRST.

Dom Wilson is Seattle’s most respected trauma surgeon and the Gray Council’s medical authority. When his wife was killed in the war between council members, he learned that saving lives sometimes requires taking them. But he’s been alone too long, and when ER doctor Kate Hawk arrives believing she’s hunting child killers, he can’t resist playing along.

Kate volunteered for this mission, genuinely believing the Gray Council murders children for their organs. The Syndicate showed her fabricated evidence, grieving families, tiny coffins. Now she’s undercover, seducing the monster who runs the organ network—except his gentle hands and haunted eyes don’t match the evil she expected.

As Dom performs increasingly intimate “examinations” while feeding her false intelligence, Kate discovers horrifying inconsistencies in what she’s been told. The children she thought were victims are alive, rescued from trafficking. The monsters she’s hunting saved them. And the organization she serves runs the very network she thought she was destroying.

When the truth shatters everything Kate believed, her rage transforms her into something deadlier than the Council ever was. Because a woman who discovers she’s been helping child traffickers while hunting their opposition doesn’t just want revenge—she wants to harvest it from their living bodies.

BEHIND THE SUTURE is the fourth book in the Gray Council series. This dark romance features a surgeon who knows exactly how much pain a body can endure, a spy whose righteous fury becomes homicidal rage, medical play that crosses every ethical line, and a guaranteed HEA sutured together with blood and betrayal. While each Gray Council book features a different couple and can be read as a standalone romance, reading in order enhances the experience as the war between the Council and Syndicate unfolds across all five books.

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, spy romance, medical play, forced caretaking, double agent, age gap, doctor/patient, vigilante justice.

The Gray Council Series: Where the villain always gets the girl.

Some wounds can only be healed by the one who cuts deepest.