Caught Up - Navessa Allen

Caught Up

By Navessa Allen

  • Release Date: 2025-06-10
  • Genre: Romantic Suspense
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 123 Ratings

Description

Book Two in the #1 New York Times and instant USA TODAY bestselling trilogy!

From the viral TikTok author of the stalker romcom, Lights Out, comes Navessa Allen’s second book in bestselling The Into Darkness Trilogy, upping the ante with voyeurism and play club kink.

“I wanted this woman, and I was a man who always got what he wanted.”

Nico “Junior” Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Junior exists in a world of violence and depravity. Men like him don’t get to have women like her. It’s why he pushed her away back in high school and kept his distance ever since.

But when Junior looks Lauren up online, he discovers the shy, bookish girl he remembers is gone. In her place is a strikingly beautiful woman whose social media is filled with scantily clad pictures of herself and a connection to a nearby play club. Junior’s innocent curiosity quickly turns into a dark obsession. Watching Lauren from a distance isn’t enough; he needs to make her his.

“He’s ruthless; a walking red flag. Good thing red is my favorite color.”

Lauren is intrigued by the mystery man who keeps showing up at her club, who tempts her white-hot desires. But as their flirty online messages stir up a deeper form of connection, Lauren worries she’s developing real feelings for this brooding stranger. As their combined desire ratchets up to a breaking point, who will seduce who?

Tropes
Stalker romance
Morally grey MMC
Masked stalker
He falls first
Kink friendly
Second chance romance
Found family
Touch her and die

Reviews

  • Meh.

    2
    By faxxed
    This book has hardly any of the feel the first book had. I feel like it includes a lot of the authors opinions and honestly the way some of the sentences are written seems very political. I haven’t read much of it so I’m going to continue it to see if it gets better but I don’t love the agenda it’s pushing. I think you shouldn’t have to feel a certain way as an author to be able to like their book but that’s how this one feels and it says nothing of that in the description. There’s already enough political debates etc going on in real life, I don’t need it in my smut lol. Sorry if that’s too much to ask. The commentary is honestly pretty mediocre as well so I’m hoping that’ll get better too. The last book was comical and witty. I really don’t want this series to be a one hit wonder or to have wasted my money :(.

  • PHENOMENAL

    5
    By Beans716
    OH. EM. GEE!! If you are thinking about trading this book and have plans, cancel them. This book is sooooo good! I finished it in a day and half. I couldn’t put it down!! I can’t wait for the third book.

  • Love love love

    5
    By N3LL
    Thank you Navessa Allen for such a good book. I loved that it wasn’t the same as Lights Out. I love the inclusion of LGBQ+ character, they were written so beautifully. Thank you for keeping it fresh and taking the risk to keep it different. It would have been so easy to rinse and repeat Lights Out and you did not. 5 star read!!! Great book!!

  • Bummer

    1
    By Cheychey3939
    I was soooo excited to read this after the first book because that one was 5/5 stars and just all around a fantastic book. This one sucked. It felt rushed and I never truly liked any of the characters fully, it felt like she was trying too hard to be progressive and it was in your face the entire time. The plot was weird and there was not any good humor throughout it.

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