Peak Cruelty
by Britney King
A luxury kidnapping?
Or a disaster in the making?
He’s done this before—followed women, watched them, waited for their secrets to surface.
It always ends the same. He chooses the perfect victim.
And then he makes them pay.
But this one?
She’s too perfect. Too normal. The kind of woman who smiles like she has nothing to hide.
That’s what gives her away.
When she leaves the hospital that night, he’s ready. Calm. Precise.
Until she turns to him and says: “This is a mistake.”
She’s not talking about him.
By the time he realizes he’s taken the wrong woman—she’s already inside the house. Locked in. Living by his rules.
But she’s not afraid. She won’t confess.
She won’t break.
Because she’s not the victim.
And whatever she’s hiding?
It’s not just darker than his past.
It might be deadlier.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
The morning is overcast. The air tastes like ocean and electricity.
Time passes. The sun moves like it has somewhere better to be.
My Review:
This tense and evocatively written missive had me tied up in knots from beginning to end. Britney King has mastered her craft and possesses hypnotically strong word voodoo. I know this for a fact as each time I resumed my perusal, I quickly tumbled back into the characters’ vortex and often found myself deeply disturbed while clenching my teeth, gripping my Kindle like a vise, and sitting hunched with my shoulders to my ears.
Yet I was riveted, as if entranced, and couldn’t stop reading this wickedly twisted tale, even if I’d wanted to… which I didn’t… and I worry what that says about me… I used to be so nice…
About the Author
Britney King lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, children, two dogs, one ridiculous cat, and a partridge in a pear tree.
