Vayra never expected the shadows to know her name—until one of them pulled her off the street and into a nightmare she couldn’t wake from.She opens her eyes in a secluded safehouse, wrists bound, heartbeat racing, and a stranger watching her from the shadows.Noxen.Cold. Controlled. Dangerous in a way that steals the air from her lungs.He isn’t a criminal looking for ransom.He isn’t a stalker who wants to break her.He’s something worse—A man who knows more about her life than she does.Noxen insists he took her to protect her.That someone else was coming for her first.That the man hunting her would have left her screaming.But he refuses to give names.He refuses to release her.And he refuses to let anyone else near her—friend or foe.Trapped in his hidden world, Vayra finds herself torn between fury and fascination.He is her captor, her guard, her threat, and her only shield against an enemy she’s never seen.And the longer she stays in his cage, the harder it becomes to tell where fear ends…and something darker begins.When the truth finally claws its way out of the shadows—about who she is, why she was marked, and what Noxen truly wants—Vayra must make an impossible choice:Escape the cage that stole her freedom…or crave the danger that holds her life—and her heart—in its hands.A dark romance of obsession, secrets, and the thin line between protection and possession.