Audrey is just an ordinary girl, miraculously admitted to the Royal Academy of Valthorne—a school reserved for the elite and their polished masks. She thought her greatest challenge would be surviving unnoticed… or uncrushed.
Until two pairs of eyes found her.
Those of Edward Whitmore, the minister’s son—arrogant, untouchable, and determined to break her.
And those of a stranger from the shadows, with spectral blue eyes… come to claim her blood.
Bodies are piling up in the city. The night whispers her name.
Audrey has crossed a line she didn’t know existed.
A pact has been made.
He is hungry.
And he has chosen her