Balaclava is a dark romance that stays behind the mask until it’s uncomfortable...
Then asks you to stay a little longer.

Modern gothic, obsessive, atmospheric, psychologically immersive, and told in dual POV.

He saved me.
He torments me.
He’s crazy.
When he comes back...
I won’t make him leave.

After her father’s death, Anna refuses to leave the last tether to him—the back-country cottage he left behind. When notes, roses, and a masked figure in the fog start appearing, she thinks she knows the danger.

She locks her doors earlier.
It doesn’t quiet the creaks in the floorboards.

Rowan never involved himself in other people’s lives. That was the problem. He works the door at the bar, keeps his head down, rides his bike hard enough to outrun whatever claws up his spine at night.

At least, he tries to.

One night at the gas station where Anna works, he sees something he can’t ignore.

He tells himself he’s just watching.
Making sure she doesn’t fall into the same trap his mother always did.

He’s lying.

Watching turns into caring. Caring spirals into obsession—until he becomes the man who won’t let anyone else touch her.

Somewhere between the claws at his neck, the mask, the bruised knuckles, and the sound of Anna’s front door locking—

He doesn’t want to walk away.
He wants to knock.

I thought I could save us both.
I was wrong.

The mask. The boy beneath. Would she want us both?

Anna knows what happens when she ignores her instincts.

Is he the man she can trust?

If not… why does she feel like she should?

For readers who love:

• Modern gothic atmosphere

• Psychologically immersive romance

• Morally gray antiheroes

• Identity-fractured protagonists

• Masked men

• Biker boys & bar bouncers

• Deeply internal MMC POV

• He falls first

• Character studies under pressure

• Psychological tension

• Slow-burn tension & spice

• Protective, possessive heroes

• Dual POV romance

• Creepy-cute companions