Clara Bennett has never heard of The Nocturne until an invitation arrives with her name on it.She almost throws it away.Instead, she walks through the doors of the most private club in the city and quickly realizes that nobody there is surprised to see her.Not even Adrian Vale.Adrian is one of the most powerful men connected to The Nocturne, and he knows something Clara does not. The invitation in her hands was meant for another woman, Evelyn Hart, who disappeared six months ago.Adrian wants Clara gone before she starts asking the wrong questions.Clara refuses to leave until she knows why she was invited.Then she discovers an old photograph of her mother standing outside The Nocturne many years ago. On the back of the photograph is a message telling her to ask Adrian what happened that night.For the first time, Clara realizes that her mother's past may be connected to the secret world she has just entered.Adrian has spent months investigating The Nocturne and believes someone inside the organization is responsible for a series of disappearances. He knows Clara is getting dangerously close to the truth, but keeping her away becomes harder when he begins to care about her.Clara does not know whether she can trust him.Adrian does not know how long he can protect her.And when Clara discovers her own name in an old Nocturne membership record, she is left with one impossible question.How could her name have been written there twenty-three years before she was born?The deeper Clara goes, the more she discovers that the invitation was never a mistake.Someone wanted her inside The Nocturne.Someone has been waiting for her.And the truth about her family may be far more dangerous than the attraction growing between her and Adrian.Because after midnight, nobody at The Nocturne tells the whole truth.And some secrets are worth destroying everything to keep.