Kiss the Knife Some scars heal. Others sharpen. Raven Vaughn has been trapped in a life that was never truly hers. Raised by a man who slipped poison into her veins and called it love, she spirals into addiction and anger until she’s forced into rehabilitation. Locked behind cold walls and polite lies, she prepares to wait out her sentence in silence. But silence has a way of cracking. Inside the Vaughn Rehabilitation Center, nothing is as it seems. Damien Steele, the sharp-eyed therapist with a colder heart than the winter outside, refuses to play her games. Where others offer sympathy, Damien offers steel. Then there’s Sam Callahan—the boy with soft words and a dangerous smile. He feels like safety. But in Raven’s world, nothing safe stays that way for long. Raven uncovers a truth she can’t outrun. Her mother’s death wasn’t an accident. And Gregory Vaughn—the man who claimed to be her father—isn’t who she thought he was. There’s another man pulling the strings from the shadows: Vincent Blackwood, the real father she never knew, and the mastermind behind a ruthless empire of greed and power. Now caught between enemies in the daylight and ghosts in the dark, Raven has a choice: surrender to the past—or set the whole damn world on fire. Love becomes a weapon, trust becomes a battlefield, and revenge is the only thing keeping her alive. Because some knives stab you when your back is turned. But the cruelest ones kiss you first.