Evelyn Vance is a human scientist hiding a blood mutation that can cure dying Lycans. When the world's most powerful Alpha raids her lab and catches a ghost of her scent, he becomes dangerously obsessed, pulling her into his world and refusing to let go. She has no way out, no one to trust, and a secret that could get her killed. His rivals know she exists. His own Council wants to control her. And when a feral Alpha finally discovers that the woman he has been hunting is the only thing keeping him alive, the question is no longer whether she can escape him. It is whether he will choose to protect her or possess her.

Liora Vale plays piano to survive. At twenty-two, she carries her family's debt on her shoulders and buries a seven year old grief in every melody she performs. The grief of her first love who was violently taken from her when she was younger and never came back. Dante Moretti is the most feared man in the Italian underworld. He remembers nothing before the age of nineteen. No memory of who he was, where he came from, and no trace of the life that was stolen from him. He built an empire from that emptiness and told himself it was enough. Until Liora walks into his gala and plays.One melody stirs a soul that has been dead for seven years. Dante cannot explain why her music feels like a memory he was never supposed to lose. Liora cannot explain why looking into the ruthless Don's eyes feels like looking at the boy she buried long ago.The underworld tore them apart. Now, the truth is sitting right between them. Some loves are stolen. Some find their way back. And some... were never really gone to begin with.