At thirty, Elara Hart survives Blackthorne Penitentiary by scrubbing its floors, keeping her head down, and never meeting the eyes of the men locked inside Pennsylvania’s most notorious maximum-security prison.
That fragile order breaks when the Jester arrives, a volatile, manipulative inmate infamous for stirring chaos both within the walls and beyond them.
Ordered to clean his high-security cell, Elara is drawn into a string of unsettling encounters that soon become a dangerous game of obsession.
Even from behind bars, the Jester still dictates the rules, and he has decided Elara Hart belongs to him.
The closer she comes to him, the harder it is to tell fear from temptation.
