I was fifteen when my mother's body was found inside The Corey Hotel, and the case was closed before anyone bothered to open an investigation.Ten years later, I walked back into that same hotel desperately needing a job, not knowing that I was walking right into the truth I spent half my life chasing.I'm trapped between my father's deteriorating mind and my brother's failing kidneys, giving me no room to rethink my decision. I have bills to pay, a family to hold together. And if it means working inside the last place my mother's body was last seen, that's exactly what I'll do.What I didn't know was that the hotel was never just a hotel. The real business happens underground, in the dark spaces where a man named Damien Corey runs everything like a king who learned to kill at thirteen and never stopped.Everyone fears him. Everyone looks away when he walks past.Everyone except me.I'm the first person in years to look him dead in the eye and refuse to flinch, and it awakens something in him he thought was dead a long time ago. Damien Corey doesn't know how to want anything he can't own or control. So when he wants me, he doesn't understand that I'm the one thing he can't have, because I'm determined to bring his entire family down.I'm not just working at the hotel that destroyed my family.I'm hunting the man who killed my mother.And the more time I spend in Damien's world, the more I suspect he might be exactly who I'm looking for.