On the worst night of her holiday season, cynic Liora Bennett stumbles upon a door that shouldn’t exist—one glowing with impossible magic and leading to a ballroom beyond her world.Inside waits Elias Hartman, a breathtakingly composed lawyer who shouldn’t belong in a realm of enchantment.But once the door seals shut, Liora learns the truth:No one leaves the Midnight Ball until fate chooses their final partner…and fate seems dangerously interested in her.

She was the one girl he was never allowed to want.And the only one she ever burned for.For years, Aurora Lane hid her dangerous obsession for Daniel Hale…her father’s best friend, the noble, impossibly handsome man who appeared in all her forbidden dreams. She buried her desire, convinced he would never see her as anything but the sweet girl he once carried on his shoulders.Until her parents moved overseas…and entrusted her to him.Now she’s living under his roof.Breathing his air.Feeling his eyes linger too long…and hearing her name slip from his lips in a way that makes her knees tremble.Daniel knows he should keep his distance.She’s too young.Too innocent.Too off-limits.But temptation has a way of slipping through locked doors…and the night he catches her whispering his name in her sleep, the last piece of his resolve begins to unravel.Some loves are forbidden.Some lines should never be crossed.But what if crossing them is the only way to survive the fire?