HER REPRESSION, HIS OBSESSIONShe learned early that feelings were dangerous.After a childhood shattered by a secret she refuses to remember, Aria Vale built walls around herself so high that no one could reach the girl hiding behind them. She became cold, controlled, and impossibly good at pretending that nothing could hurt her.Until Damian Cross walks into her life.Damian is everything she should stay away from—powerful, ruthless, mysterious, and dangerously possessive. He has a reputation for destroying anyone who crosses him, yet from the moment his eyes meet Aria’s, something inside him changes.She becomes the one thing he cannot control.The one person he cannot forget.The one weakness he refuses to have.Aria wants nothing to do with him. She hates the way his presence makes her heart race. She hates the way he sees through the carefully constructed mask she has spent years perfecting. Most of all, she hates that a part of her feels strangely safe in the darkness he carries.Damian, however, has no intention of walking away.He becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind her silence—the nightmares she hides, the scars she refuses to explain, and the memories she has buried so deeply that even she cannot reach them.But the closer he gets, the more dangerous their attraction becomes.Because Damian has secrets of his own.Secrets connected to the night Aria's life changed forever.And when fragments of her forgotten past begin resurfacing, Aria discovers that Damian may not have entered her life by accident.Someone has been watching her.Someone knows what happened.Someone wants the truth buried forever.As forbidden desire collides with buried trauma, Aria must decide whether to surrender to the man who seems determined to possess her heart—or run before his obsession consumes them both.But Damian has already made his choice.He will uncover every secret she buried.He will protect her from the darkness hunting her.And if the truth means losing her...he may destroy everything standing between them.Because she represses everything she feels.And he?He has never known how to love without becoming obsessed.