Stained With You
by itsvlada
🕵🏻 What are the chances of falling in love with your stalker?
- Genre
- Steamy
- Chapters
- 45
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 673
18+Review by Julia ·
Ruth Allen has had a tough time. Her brother died, and she was running from her obsessive ex. She was a famous painter who painted haunting pictures for a living. But now she decides to leave the city, hoping she can stay anonymous.
Emmett Marshall is a scarred former FBI hacker and now has a new obsession, Ruth. He desires Ruth like nothing he has ever desired before. He becomes fixated on her breaking into her world piece by piece. He watches her sketch and even leaves gifts for her.
Ruth should hate him; she should run far away from him, but instead, she remembers what his hands can do to her. But when she finds out the truth about her and Emmett’s past, danger and desire collide. It is not love; it is what people would call twisted worship, and it can really hurt.
Themes Discussed in Stained With You
😍 Redemption and obsession
💪 Vulnerability and control
🧠 Psychological power play
Reasons to Read Stained With You
🆚 Good girl – bad boy trope
🖤 A tale that delves into dark trauma
💭 Romance with psychological depth
Meet The Main Characters
♀️ Ruth Allen
Ruth paints the grief she can not express in words. She is haunted by guilt, and through her fame, she is chased. She has high barriers that even love can not climb over. But everything will be revealed when someone confronts her about her past and what she is fleeing from.
♂️ Emmett Marshall
He is a scarred genius hacker who has turned into a vigilante. He believes obsession is merely another word for devotion. His need to protect turns into possession. But when she finally learns what he has done to her and for her, the lines become blurred.
🎭 This is a steamy romance that not only explores passion but pain, secrets and the mafia world.
Stained With You synopsis
Ruth Allen thought she was running—from her obsessive ex, the guilt of her brother’s death, the suffocating fame that came with painting grief for a living. But the true danger isn’t behind her. It’s already inside the house.
Emmett Marshall is a scarred former FBI hacker with a taste for justice and new obsession. The first time he sees Ruth, something snaps loose in him. Not just desire. Ownership.
She becomes his fixation, his redemption, his ruin. He breaks into her world piece by piece—watching her sketch, leaving her gifts, learning how she breaks... and what it takes to make her beg.
She should hate him. She should run. But her body remembers what his hands did to her long before her mind catches up. And when she finds out the truth about her past—and Emmett’s part in it—desire and danger collide in ways neither of them can control.
This isn’t love. It’s twisted worship. And it’s going to hurt.
Read Stained With You – Chapter 1
Ruth’s POV
The ocean used to save me. Now, it only knows how to take.
I stepped onto the porch barefoot, the wood groaning beneath me, and listened to the waves crash just beyond view—close enough to haunt, far enough to ignore.
I had only been in this house for three weeks. It sat on the edge of a town, clamped between dark forest and fields near the wild beach, the kind of place no one stumbled upon.
That was the point. I didn’t want to be found, especially not by my ex, Tyler.
He had started showing up too often, at my studio, at my shows, calling from new numbers every time I blocked him. The last straw was the night he waited outside my apartment, demanding that we “just talk.”
His version of talking was grabbing my arm and telling me I owed him a second chance.
The next morning, I searched for places to rent far from the city. This one popped up with a single photo and no description, and I signed the lease within the hour.
Today was the gallery visit I’d been putting off. My most famous painting, the ocean scene from the day my brother drowned, was being installed in a local exhibit.
I had kept that piece on my studio wall for years, like a wound I refused to let close. But now I am finally ready to let it go, hoping it would hurt less if it wasn’t staring back at me every time I passed it.
Driving to the gallery, I half-expected to feel pride. Instead, my stomach turned.
When I arrived, the place wasn’t ready. Crates lined the floor, lighting rigs still hung crooked, my piece hadn’t even been unwrapped yet. Beth, the curator, looked embarrassed.
Tropes
- Stalker
- Dark Romance
- Obsession
- Romantic Suspense
- Secret
- Opposites Attract
- Mafia
- Thriller
- Danger