Captive Scent
by Stacy Slade

Freedom has a price.
And Mara is about to pay it with her body.

Martin Hayes thought he had found a way out of a life sentence. A secret government program promised freedom in exchange for participation in an experimental procedure. Survive the trial, and his past would be erased.

But the experiment didn’t just change his future.

It changed everything.

Now reborn as Mara—young, beautiful, and engineered to emit a powerful pheromone that drives men wild with desire—she is dropped onto a remote island with six dangerous convicts. Their orders are simple: hunt, survive, and claim the irresistible prize placed among them.

The island becomes a brutal game of power, temptation, and survival. Some men see Mara as prey. Others see her as leverage. And a few begin to see something far more complicated.

But Mara is not the helpless captive they expect.

Behind the beauty and the scent that enslaves every man who breathes it lies a mind that refuses to surrender. If she can manipulate the hunters… she might just survive long enough to escape.

On an island where desire is weaponized and loyalty is fragile, the real question isn’t who will capture Mara—

…it’s who she will ultimately control.

Captive Scent is a dark, high-stakes survival thriller filled with tension, psychological games, and dangerous attraction.

Who is hunting…
and who is being hunted?