Belle has no idea that the ball at the legendary Cendaris Castle will destroy her life. Instead of a glamorous evening, she faces an abyss of lies, violence, and power plays. And at the center of it all is him: Gabriel Thorne.

A man whose icy blue eyes could bring down entire kingdoms. A beast who knows no mercy.

A ruler of a realm of shadows, into which she should never have stumbled.

But the deeper Belle is drawn into his world, the more clearly she senses that something lives inside him that should have ceased to breathe long ago. Something dangerous. Something human. Something that could destroy them both.

Because Gabriel didn't choose Belle for no reason.

And he has no intention of letting her go again.