Elara Veylon grew up surrounded by silence—an empty estate on the edge of a forgotten city, her mother dead, her father absent, and her days filled only with books, locked rooms, and shadows that whispered when the lights went out. When she finally leaves for university, she thinks she's free of that hollow house.
But freedom doesn't last. Someone is watching. Someone who knows the secrets her family buried. Someone who wants her to remember.
Kael Drosan isn't kind. He isn't safe. He doesn't love the way others do—his devotion is suffocating, consuming, a hunger carved from violence and obsession. He calls her his light in the ruin. And he will burn everything to keep her from leaving him, even if she hates him for it.
The more Elara runs, the closer he comes. And the more he comes, the more she begins to question whether the monster haunting her steps is her destruction—or the only one who truly sees her.