Sloane Mercer was in a sorrowful state when a mysterious man offered her a dangerous job: A promise of three years of stability for surveillance. Adrian Vos appears to be a professional private eye, a profiler, repulsively wealthy, and completely heartless. The arrangement should be simple, transactional, and safe. What Sloane doesn’t know: Adrian has been watching her for a year and a half, experiencing her life through hidden cameras. Watching her crack open in the face of grief, absorbing her ferocity, seeing her for who she is. He memorized the way she cried while reading those paperback romances, her habit of folding down pages to mark her place and loathed the physical yearning his own body felt for her, even as his mind worshipped her entirely, her whispered name drifting through the walls to his ears. What Adrian doesn’t know: Sloane found his cameras three months ago, as well. She didn’t call the police. She didn’t turn them off or burn them out. She left them there and moved closer, slipping herself into the record. Peeking, hovering, howling as she pleasured herself, knowing he might see, whispering his name and praying he hears her, choosing to be recorded because it was beautiful. Honest. Pure. When they reunite at the Velvet Room, with months of watching juxtaposed with months of loving, neither can they pretend anymore. Their relationship is beyond professionalism. Perhaps it always was. Perhaps Adrian and Sloane are already in love, not with each other, but with the cameras, each other’s bodies, each other’s voices. Growing over the course of documentation and devotion to love, neither could anyone wish on anyone else. The sort of love that would make them dangerous. But Sloane’s new partner‘s past is darker than she imagines. Adrian is Subject Seven, weaponized by Project Vesper, a shadowy government espionage program. His handler, Elena, conditioned him from the tiniest fertilized embryo. His thirteen scars mark the survival point that transforms him into the delusional professional killer he is. His client Margaret, Sloane’s mother, Catherine’s, knew all of this. Injected her own monster into the package, hired the weapon to protect her girl. Adrian found himself adrift for over six months, facing arrest, months behind bars, and Sloane vulnerable to the harsh weather. Margaret Blackwater, Project Vesper architect, destroyer of children, wastes no time. She takes Sloan, subjects her to hellish reconditioning, and creates Subject Eight. Her goal is to pair Sloan and Subject Seven, Adrian, together into lovers and killers? For seventy-two weeks in prison, Margaret underwent a grueling process of reprocessing, endured a descent into her own personal hell, and emerged with love, yet the power she held remained unknown even to herself. Just one week shy of their seventh day, and their liberation would finally arrive. And finally within the last three days, everything about Project Vesper will be expose.