Seven voicemails. No words. Just breathing.

Nora Chen deleted every one. She changed her locks, filed reports no one followed up on, and learned to catalogue the sounds of her Brooklyn apartment the way other people catalogue wine. Normal. New. Dangerous.

Then a card appeared under her door. "You looked beautiful at dinner tonight".

She hadn't been to dinner. She'd been standing at her kitchen window in sweatpants, eating cold noodles alone. Someone had been watching.

Out of options and out of people to call, Nora does the one thing she swore she'd never do — she calls her ex-husband.

Eli Voss is not a normal man.

A private security specialist who thinks in threat assessments and surveillance protocols, Eli has spent eighteen months trying to forget the woman he lost. He hasn't succeeded. He's been monitoring her building for three weeks. He knows about the stalker. He knows things about Nora she doesn't know he knows.

Now she's asking for his help. And the line between protecting her and possessing her is thinner than he wants to admit.

As the stalker escalates — photographs, break-ins, messages that prove he's closer than anyone realized — Nora is forced to trust the one man whose obsessive need to know everything about her destroyed their marriage. The question isn't whether Eli can keep her safe. It's whether the man protecting her is any different from the man hunting her.

Told in dual POV, Ruin Me Quietly is a white-knuckle dark romance about obsession, surveillance, and the dangerous space between love and control.

Content note: This novel contains depictions of stalking, surveillance, and emotional manipulation. Listener discretion is advised.

Tropes: stalker romance · obsessive hero · ex-husband · forced proximity · dual POV · who did it · morally grey hero · second chance

This audiobook features AI-assisted narration.

Noa Severin

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