Dante is the king of secrets in a town built on lies. He rules the shadows of Ravenwood the parts of the city decent people pretend don't exist. He had a plan, a code, and a life of cold control. Then she walked in. She was a variable he didn't account for. A light he wasn't supposed to touch.
But when the city tries to break her, Dante's instinct to protect quickly morphs into a dark, suffocating possession. In Ravenwood, desire is a liability and "mercy" is a word the dead used to know. As the lines between savior and captor blur, she must decide: Is the man holding the match her rescue, or the one who will burn her world to the ground? In this town, what survives isn't innocent. And Ravenwood never forgets.
