Gwen Brooks has nothing left. No home. No money. A mother dying in a hospital bed she can’t afford to keep and a father in prison. Then a cold, dangerous professor saves her from the guys who bullied her. She thinks it’s luck. Until he looks at her like she’s a mistake… and rejects her as his mate. Lucien Quin isn’t human. Cursed for three thousand years, he was supposed to get a mate with power, strength. Someone who could stand beside him. But fate gave him Gwen instead. She's broke, fragile, bullied. A human, and she doesn’t even know what he is. He tried to push her away. It should have worked, but it didn’t. Now he wants her gone. She wants to know why he keeps showing up. And something between them refuses to let either one go. Because some ties don’t break. They ruin you.