Dr. Seraphina Vale is the city's most sought-after trauma psychologist—cool, analytical, and armored by the very pain she treats. When she's hired to evaluate the enigmatic and lethally charismatic Viktor Kane, a self-made billionaire suspected of orchestrating a string of brutal corporate eliminations, she expects another clinical case. She doesn't expect the man who sees straight through her practiced detachment.Viktor is danger wrapped in tailored darkness: possessive, brilliant, and haunted by a past that mirrors her own buried wounds. What begins as professional sessions spirals into a volatile obsession. Stolen nights, whispered threats, and a hunger neither can deny blur every boundary. He vows to protect her from the world—even as his own secrets threaten to destroy her.But the deepest fracture is yet to come. As Seraphina uncovers the meticulously crafted truth behind Viktor's crimes, she realizes the most dangerous manipulation isn't his. It's the one she crafted in her own mind to survive him—and the one she no longer wants to escape.In a world where love is the ultimate weapon and sanity is negotiable, how far will she fall before she realizes she's already lost?A dark romance of twisted devotion, psychological games, and consuming passion that will leave readers breathless and questioning every heartbeat.