Saturday, February 14, 2026

Into Darkness Book 1: Lights Out by Navessa Allen

 

Into Darkness Book 1

#1 New York Times bestselling series and Instant USA TODAY Bestseller

The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?

I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.

Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.

I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.

Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.

Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.

Lights Out is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally gray male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the TWs at the beginning of the book.

Tropes: Stalker romance / Morally grey MMC / Masked stalker / He falls first / Black cat x golden retriever / Kink friendly


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My Review: 5/5 Stars

Aly is no stranger to the darkness. She has seen it all working as an ER trauma nurse. Maybe that is why she isn’t surprised with herself when she becomes obsessed with this one particular social media account of a guy in a mask. He fulfills all her darkest fantasies and what she wouldn’t give to make them real. Turns out, she just may get her wish… Josh has spent his life hiding from the limelight. With who his father was? Yeah, better to lay low and not be recognized. It’s safer that way. And he only trusts a few people in his life. But he also has this secret online persona. And when he learns that Aly, a girl his best friend used to hook up with, is into his online persona? Well, he can’t resist learning more about her. And what he finds tells him that they share the same fantasies. So what if he could make them real? And what happens when another sort of darkness comes from them? For a dark romance, I was cracking up a good portion of this story. Aly and Josh are hysterical, especially Josh. Being in their heads as they figure out what they are doing was so entertaining. I also loved that we got their soft and fun sides while also their more darker ones. It was such a nice balance between the two as they two feel for one another and pushed one another boundaries as well. I think this is gonna be an interesting world to explore and I’m excited to start the next one.

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