What if your touch could heal a man cursed by darkness… but doom you in return?Marilyn escapes to the city to start over—new job, new life, no complications. But fate has other plans when she meets Lucien: enigmatic, powerful, and undeniably cursed. Literally.Bound by a deadly secret and haunted by a legacy he can’t escape, Lucien has shut the world out—until Marilyn. Her presence weakens the curse that’s held him captive for years, but the closer they grow, the more dangerous it becomes.He craves her. She fears him. And the deeper their obsession grows, the more Marilyn realizes: she may be the key to breaking his curse… or the reason it consumes them both.In a city filled with shadows, secrets, and supernatural bonds, love is the most dangerous force of all.