Lex Barinov and Cade Whitmore at last have a face for the man behind the screen, and they know exactly what he wants.
If they hope to reach Bella Blackwood, Luca's twelve trials will stretch across twelve days, and every note will force a choice between love and death.
Lex is pulled through violence and control with nothing left but the fury that drives him toward her, while Cade is ordered to turn grief into beauty and make art from the memory of the woman they both love.
Bella waits in the dark, held by a man determined to replace her memories with a life she never lived, and her brother Zeke Blackwood has endured more than eight hundred days in that house, broken, branded, and forced to keep a lie that is splitting his reality.
Obedience, performance, and survival are the only rules, yet Bella's false life, Zeke's fading fight, Cade's nightmares, and the deadly edge of Lex's devotion remain unresolved.
