She ran into the storm to escape him. But the storm only led her back. Ren thought the past was buried. She’d spent years pretending Kael was a ghost—just a shadow from a forbidden childhood bond torn apart by controlling parents and suffocating expectations. But when she wakes in his room with no memory of how she got there and flees into a storm-thrashed forest, she realizes the past isn’t just alive—it’s chasing her. Rain drowns the world around her. Trees twist like nightmares. And Kael is always one step behind. But Kael doesn’t believe he’s hunting her. He believes he’s saving her—from a life of silence, from the cage she was forced to decorate and call freedom. From a family that tried to erase who she really was. He doesn’t want to hurt her. He wants to bring her back. Back to him. Back to the version of herself she had to abandon to survive. As the storm closes in and the line between memory and reality begins to blur, Ren must confront what truly terrifies her: Kael’s devotion… or the way a part of her still reaches for it. In the woods where the past never died, love and obsession blur into one. And the deeper Ren runs, the closer Kael gets.