Once More

He went to prison for his brother. Six years later, the only one waiting at the gates was her.

Andreas Barros sacrificed his freedom to protect his family. What he got in return was silence—no visits, no calls, no one standing on the other side when the doors finally opened. Just Haya. His brother's girl. The one he watched from a distance and never let himself want.

She was never supposed to be mine.

Haya Yaisien has spent six years surviving the Naess compound on obedience and invisibility. She's not family—she's useful. And when that stops being enough, she'll be discarded like everything else Father no longer needs. Bringing Andreas home was supposed to be one last chore. Instead, it cracked open something neither of them ever buried deep enough.

He doesn't look at me the way his brother did—like I was something to own. He looks at me like he's deciding what he's willing to destroy to keep me.

In The Dark, loyalty is the only currency that matters. The Naess family is built on it—sons acquired, shaped, and weaponized for a patriarch who treats love like a liability. Andreas came home expecting to settle a debt. Haya was just trying to survive the week. Neither of them planned on becoming the one thing the other couldn't afford to lose.

I don't hide. I take. And God help anyone who moves on what's mine.

Once More is the first book in the Andreas & Haya duet, a dark mafia romance. Book one ends on a cliffhanger.

The Dark Series—where loyalty is currency and love is leverage.