Tom Robertson is one of the story’s most quietly devastating presences, and he never appears on the page at all.
Keira meets him during her freshman year at university in Southampton, England. They had been seeing each other for only a few weeks when Hugo Morgan killed him. Keira describes Tom simply but warmly: a nice guy, funny, smart, the type you could introduce to your parents. There is no drama in how she remembers him, no complicated feelings, just the plain sadness of someone who was uncomplicated and good and did not deserve what happened to him.
Morgan murders Tom and takes his phone. He then sends Keira a text pretending to be Tom, asking her to meet him. Keira, still feeling guilty about planning to report Morgan for his increasingly disturbing behavior and wanting a pleasant distraction, agrees without hesitation. She walks into the trap Morgan has set and is kidnapped.
She finds out the truth later, after the fact. Tom’s body is discovered dumped in the woods near the university. His throat had been cut so deeply that it nearly severed his head. The police, already investigating his murder, are the ones who tell Keira what happened. She breaks down. She blames herself, and continues to blame herself long after, for not going to the police sooner, for not seeing what Morgan was becoming before Tom paid the price for it.
He is mentioned only once across all 13 books, in Book 1, when Keira tells Draven the full story of what happened at university. It is a confession that costs her to make. Draven’s response, when she finishes, is to snarl that Morgan should have been caught sooner. He is right. Tom Robertson is the clearest measure of just how far Morgan’s obsession had already gone before Keira even knew she was in danger.