Phoenix

From bestselling and multi-award-winning author Amanda McKinney comes a page-turning, steamy standalone romantic suspense in the Steele Shadows series.A man who cheated death.A woman hired to pick up the broken pieces.An obsession strong enough to kill for.They told him he'd been given a second chance at life. Told him to count his lucky stars, to stop and smell the roses. Kind of hard to do when your body is bound by chains and cuffs. That's what it felt like, anyway, when Phoenix Steele wakes up from his coma to a life full of restrictions. Once known around town as the fearless, indomitable heir to the Steele fortune, the former Marine is suddenly labeled as unstable, short-tempered, and a loose cannon. Unwilling to accept his issues, Phoenix instantly clashes with his therapist—the town's most eligible bachelorette.No one knows how to overcome the odds like Dr. Rose Floris. Determined not to be a statistic, Rose has lived her life under carefully constructed routines—until a gruesome murder and a series of mysterious events reveal she's become the center of a madman's obsession. Suddenly, Rose's world is turned upside down and she finds herself under the watchful eye of her new patient, a broken man she's been warned not to trust.As the tables begin to turn on their client-patient relationship, Phoenix realizes he must battle his own demons before he can save anyone, including the woman who's become his own obsession...An obsession he'd kill for.Phoenix is a standalone romantic suspense (no cliff-hanger).