"In this city, the only thing more lethal than a bullet is a secret." Julian Vance is a ghost in the lab—a 190cm wall of muscle and medical genius who lives by a rigid code of ethics. He despises Francesca Moretti, the "Ice Queen" heiress whose family name is written in blood and corruption. But when Francesca is poisoned by a neuro-accelerant that turns her own skin into a prison of fire, she doesn't go to her bodyguards. She crawls to the only man who is "clean." To save her, Julian must break every rule he ever lived by. It was supposed to be a clinical intervention—a sensory override to stop her heart from exploding. But as the towering student claims the untouchable heiress on a cold steel table, the lines between doctor and sinner blur. The poison is gone, but the obsession has just begun. And in the Moretti world, the only thing more dangerous than dying is being seen when you’re broken.