Clara James was never to be seen--she was to be forgotten.Being a wiped-clean memory of a college girl that is broke and has never imagined the most vicious mafia boss ever in the city stalking her she never thought she was seeing the ghost of the woman he had lost.She isn’t.But Adrian Leone can not lose her.Carried to his penthouse to be protected, Clara is plunged into a world of blood, bullets, and violent lust. What begins as compelled closeness and hate-razorblade turns into a slow-burn obsession neither of them is able to counter.He believed he was getting a pawn.She is about to steal his throne.And the demon who stained her will be on his knees in the quest of the second chance she never intended to provide.

Ellis Harper made it through freshman year by learning to get out of the way.She was taught by Jude Callahan. Not loudly. No, he never said anything mean. He merely ensured she was not on the lists, not in the group chats, not a possible option for the election she had been preparing for all of October for the photography club. At the end of that year she was eating lunch by herself in the darkroom with her camera and no one asked her why, since no one remembered she was ever invited.By sophomore year, she was able to do well. After dating for six months his father married her mother and Ellis lives 11 doors down the hall from the boy who made her small, and their parents have family dinners like this going on as if it were normal.She has 6 weeks to complete her application for the Seattle Photography Residency.