Author Jane Ann Darling

Killer Instinct

Signed by the Author

In-Store Location: Dark Contemporary
Show more

Welcome to Camp Lakeview.

As the camp nurse at a behavioral rehabilitation camp for troubled pre-teens, I’m supposed to handle split lips, heatstroke, and campers who’d rather die than spend their summer here.
Nothing I can’t handle.

Camp Lakeview is where rich parents send their kids when they’re trying to keep them out of trouble. The rest are wards of the state, dropped here when there’s nowhere else to put them. Either way, everyone arrives with a file, including me.

Then, there’s Wesley.

He’s one of the counselors, equipped with a pretty smile and watchful eyes. He’s harmless. Flirty? Sure. Dangerous? Hardly.

That is, until someone turns up dead.

The town sheriff claims it was an accident. The camp director won’t listen to my suspicions, but Wesley knows exactly what—and who—I’m afraid of.

And he doesn’t just want revenge.

He wants me.

KILLER INSTINCT is an ’80s slasher MF dark romance.

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Tropes: Summer camp slasher, Enemies to lovers, Final girl, Stalker, Forced proximity, 80s horror nostalgia, He falls first.

Content Warnings: On-page death, Knife play, Drowning, Animal death (semi-graphic description; not a dog or cat), Blood and gore, Stalking, Violence with weapons (knife, bow and arrow, and gun), Profanity.