The Predatory Spouse. The Predatory Spouse Series, #1

Love was supposed to protect him. Instead, it became the thing he had to survive. The Predatory Spouse Series by Darius Blackman is a five-book domestic suspense series about toxic love, emotional control, betrayal, survival, and the long road back to identity after a relationship becomes a trap. The series begins with Malik Carter, a young soldier whose life changes after one encounter pulls him into a relationship built on desire, manipulation, obsession, and control.
What starts as attraction becomes a war for his confidence, loyalty, identity, and peace. Across the series, Blackman follows the emotional damage people carry after dangerous love, the distance they travel trying to heal, and the battles they still face when survival is only the beginning. Raw, dramatic, and emotionally direct, The Predatory Spouse Series is for readers who enjoy dark relationship fiction, military romance, domestic suspense, African American fiction, psychological drama, and stories about people learning to choose themselves after being consumed by someone else.