When Lotus’s parents mysteriously disappear, she’s left in the care of an aunt who offers her a new life overnight. Betrayed by her boyfriend and best friend, she decides to take her aunt up on her offer to start fresh in an unfamiliar city, where secrets linger in the shadows where she meets Salem—from a rich family with a dark aura to everyone but his friends and hiding demons of his own. Their chemistry is undeniable, leading to tensions she doesn’t fully understand. As she unravels the layers of her new reality, suspicions rise. Why did her aunt take her in so suddenly? Why does her past feel so unfinished? The answers lie in a dark secret—one that will shake everything she thought she knew. Because the truth has been hiding right under her feet, waiting to be unearthed.