Lyra, a 9-year-old whose life was stolen from her fingers. Her father is dead, her mother gone, and the man who should have protected her left her broken with only his shadow. Now, fifteen-year-old Lyra Wren has a plan. She’s trained in every martial art, mastered every weapon, and changed her name to Vesper Hale — all for one purpose: revenge. When she arrives at Blackstone Academy, she locks eyes with Rowan Crest. The guy she’s been keeping tabs on for years- tall, haunted, and unknowingly tied to the man who ruined her. But Rowan carries scars of his own, shadows that make him both a threat and an unwanted obsession. As Vesper’s meticulously built vengeance begins, the dash between hunter and prey fades. Stalked, cornered, and tested, Rowan must confront not only the girl he watched suffer but the evil within himself. At Blackstone, secrets are currency, fear is power, and revenge has a price that no one is prepared to pay. She’s coming for him… and maybe, somehow, he’s the only one who can save her.