Caught By The Beast I Caged

After graduation, a young woman moves to Seattle for her first job and takes up her brother Jason's offer to stay at his apartment in the Hilltop district while he is away on a month-long business trip. His only condition is that she look after his "new addition" — a black-haired pet he keeps tethered inside and calls a brat.

What she finds in the dim master bedroom is not a dog but a blind man, his ankle bound by a pulsing electronic monitor. Jason has stripped him of his name, calling him only "Dog," and the man refuses to eat or speak. From a discarded wallet she learns his name is Elias Hawthorne, of Chicago, and that her brother is far more dangerous than she imagined. Claiming to be the new housekeeper, she hides her identity and tries to keep him alive.

When Jason warns that Elias is terrified of water, she races to the bath and pulls his submerged body from the tub. She has decided to save her brother from himself by saving Elias first — but the monitor on his ankle is always watching, and the rules are not hers to break.