Welcome to the Heart of a Maniac

The Saint-Mercier Family Saga, Book 1

By: Taniece

Narrated by: Star Williams, Dylan Ford

Wren has always lived quietly, hiding behind library stacks, anime marathons, and late-night gaming sessions. She's the girl who minds her business and keeps her world small.

Until the night she collides with him.

Maniac isn't the type of man you accidentally bump into, not unless fate intends to set your whole world on fire. Cold-blooded, territorial, and feared by everyone who knows his name, Maniac rules the streets with the same ruthlessness he uses to protect what's his.

And the second Wren stumbles into him, she becomes exactly that—his.

She should run.

She should be terrified.

But there's something magnetic in the way he watches her… like he can already see every secret she's never told.

Maniac doesn't do gentle.

He doesn't do normal.

His love language is violence—bloody, obsessive, unrestrained.

When enemies start circling, and Wren is pulled into his brutal world, she realizes one thing: He's not just willing to burn the city down for her… He'd enjoy doing it.

And the more she learns about the man behind the madness, the harder it is to tell whether she's falling in love or being claimed.

Welcome to the heart of a maniac.

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