Forgive Me Father

He preaches hellfire because he feels it burning inside him.Father Malachi Thorne is the only law in Oakhaven — a rain-soaked logging town where God comes second and the pastor comes first. Six feet of black clerical cloth, cold discipline, and a darkness he's spent eleven years caging behind scripture and self-inflicted scars. He doesn't struggle with temptation. He contains it. Every cold shower, every dawn rosary, every night spent kneeling on hardwood until his body forgets what it wants — all of it designed to keep the predator behind his teeth from ever getting out.Then Eden Cross walks through his church doors with nothing but a duffel bag, a bruised wrist, and eyes that hold his gaze longer than anyone in his congregation has ever dared.She's running from a man who broke her. She's looking for sanctuary. What she finds is a pastor who offers strict rules, absolute authority, and a room she's told never to lock.He gives her structure. Routine. Discipline. He corrects her posture with hands that linger. He hears her confession in the dark and asks questions no priest should ask. He watches her scrub his church on her knees and documents what it does to him in a notebook written in cipher.She calls him Father. He hears something else.When the collar comes off, the rules don't change — they deepen. The confessional becomes his weapon. The rosary becomes her leash. And the line between spiritual guidance and absolute possession disappears in a church where God is watching and neither of them cares.But Eden's violent past isn't finished with her. And when the man she fled tracks her to Oakhaven, Father Thorne discovers that the darkness he spent his whole life caging is the only thing standing between the woman he owns and the man who wants her back.Some men find God.Malachi Thorne found something better.Forgive Me Father is a full-length, standalone dark romance featuring a morally obsessive MMC, religious taboo, praise/degradation dynamics, consensual punishment, and scenes of intense explicit content. This is NOT a safe book. Reader discretion is strongly advised. 18+ only.