After losing her father to the war, nineteen-year-old Elena Whitmore relocates to Britain with her grieving mother, hoping to rebuild their shattered lives in a quiet countryside cottage. But peace is impossible beside Blackthorne Castle. Towering beyond the fog lives the mysterious Duke Lucien Blackthorne, a breathtakingly handsome nobleman feared by the entire village. He is cold, elegant, impossibly wealthy... and hides a terrifying secret behind his silver eyes. When Elena begins working at the castle, curiosity slowly turns into dangerous attraction. The more time she spends with the enigmatic duke, the more she realizes something is deeply wrong within the walls of Blackthorne Castle. Lucien never appears during the day. He never eats. And no one who enters the forbidden west wing is ever seen again. But by the time Elena discovers the truth about the man she has fallen hopelessly in love with, it may already be too late.

After her mother’s death leaves her drowning in debt, Aria Quinn accepts a job at Blackwood Residences, a luxury apartment building filled with wealthy tenants and whispered secrets. There is only one rule, Stay away from Room 1108. Nobody explains why. Curiosity gets the better of her on her first night. When she unlocks the forbidden apartment, she expects an empty room. Instead, she finds a man. Damien Vale was declared dead six years ago. Yet somehow, he’s alive. Hidden inside Room 1108. As Aria becomes entangled in Damien’s dangerous secrets, she discovers a mysterious connection between him and her late mother, a connection her mother kept hidden until the day she died. When a powerful woman arrives searching for Damien, old lies begin to unravel, buried truths resurface, and Aria realizes her mother’s death may not have been an accident at all. Now trapped between a dead man, a family secret, and a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of Blackwood Residences, Aria must uncover the truth before she becomes the next person someone wants buried. Some doors should stay closed. Room 1108 wasn’t one of them.