Haunting Adeline

What's in this book, at a glance — five things readers want to know before they start.

What this book is about

Hazel, a horror novelist living alone in her late grandmother's gothic mansion, begins to realize she is being watched—and then visited—by a man called Zade, an assassin who has become fixated on her. Told in alternating points of view, the novel explores an intensely dark romantic obsession set against a backdrop of organized crime and graphic violence. H.D. Carlton's controversial duology is among the most-read dark romance books of the past decade, with explicit noncon elements that many readers find cathartic and others deeply disturbing.