The Hunter's Cage

She put him in this prison. Now she's checking herself in to get her brother out — and the man she filed away four years ago is the only one who can help.

Sable Marsh spent four years as a guard at The Reach. She did her job by the book. The book is what got her partner killed and her badge taken, and the only thing she has left is three years of quiet evidence and a brother on the next Patron Hunt list — six weeks from being turned loose into a wild reserve and hunted for sport by paying clients of the Council that runs this place.

So she gets herself arrested. Walks back through the gate as an inmate. And finds her protection contract waiting in the records-shed of Hollow Pack, signed in the hand of the man whose intake form she stamped on Day One of his sentence: Caelan Vance. Crow. Framed by a Council member. Buried alive by a guard who didn't look up. Now the largest faction inside The Reach answers to him, and he is the only operator on the inside who already knows every move she is about to make.

The contract is honest about the leverage. Everything else is what they do with the honesty. The Hunt clock is running. The man who wears a sentence she signed is the only inside line she has. And the cleaner the work goes, the harder it gets to remember she came here to leave.

The cage was built to hold them.

It was not built to hold them together.

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The Hunter's Cage is a dark, propulsive dystopian prison romance — first-person dual POV, enemies-to-lovers with structural cause, equal-power dynamic, on-page violence and explicit intimacy that earn their pages. For readers of To Cage a Wild Bird, Dire Bound, and Rina Kent. Standalone.