THORAN LACROIX

I have two months to find a bride.

Someone willing to overlook my scars, the blood on my hands, and the truth that I will never love her … and still choose to cross the threshold of a house that has claimed every woman before her.

Then she walks into my dark world.

Naya. Sweet, shattered, and dangerously irresistible. With her false identity and haunted eyes, she is everything my dead heart has ever wanted. And that is precisely why I can never have her.

Because loving her is exactly what the demons want. It’s how they’ll take her from me. She is the softness I can't allow myself, and yet ... if I let her go, I will have no reason to go on.

NAYA BLACKWELL

I was never supposed to live.

My entire life has been bought by a man twice my age. A monster with no soul and a taste for destruction. All I have in the world is my brother and an impending fate I can never escape.

Until I do. Until I find myself running straight into the arms of a man far more ruthless, far more dangerous. A man who looks at me like I hold the key to his salvation. Only, he can never know that I am the woman his friend is searching for. The one who got away.

But the longer I remain with him in his shadowy manor surrounded by the ghosts of the past, the less I want to leave. A foolish decision when I know it will cost me everything if he ever finds out.