Erika Fane has spent her entire life on the outside of Michael Crist’s world  close enough to feel the heat of it, never close enough to touch. She grew up next door to him, ate dinner at his family’s table, and fell quietly, completely in love with a boy who barely knew her name. Then came one night  Devil’s Night, three years ago  when he finally saw her. When he pulled her into his world, spoke to her like she mattered, and made her feel like she was exactly where she was supposed to be. That night changed everything. Then it destroyed everything. Michael and his friends the Four Horsemen of Thunder Bay  went to prison. And they say it was her fault. Now Rika is nineteen, starting fresh at Trinity College in Meridian City, and determined to finally live life on her own terms. No mother hovering. No Trevor Crist following her around like she belongs to him. No more waiting for a man who has made it clear she is nothing to him. She finds an apartment, packs her bags, and leaves it all behind. Except she didn’t escape anything. She walked straight into it. The apartment she rented turns out to be in a building owned by the Crist family. Michael lives one floor above her. His friends  Damon, Kai, and Will, freshly released from prison are already there waiting. Her mother has gone silent. Her phone calls go unanswered. One by one, every safety net she has ever had is quietly being cut away, and she is only beginning to understand that none of this is a coincidence. They planned this. All of it. Three years of waiting, and now Rika is exactly where they want her isolated, alone, and surrounded. Michael Crist is not the boy from her memories. He is colder now, harder, and far more dangerous. He looks at her like she is something he both wants and despises. He has a plan for her, and it does not end well for Rika. But the closer he gets, the more his control begins to crack — because three years of hating her has done nothing to kill what he feels. And Rika, for all the fear and fury she carries, cannot seem to stay away from the one man who has promised himself he will ruin her. Some obsessions are too dark to survive. Some are too powerful to stop.