Gloria Vance fled New York for London, running from Luca and the shadows that chased her family. She thought she could disappear into a new school, but her professor, Ilian Valevsky, has other plans. The man who burned down the empire meant to be his now watches her with an obsession she can't name-and won't escape. Her family is hiding secrets, his past is made of blood, and both of them are caught in a web that tightens with every step. But when the solution becomes a marriage neither of them asked for, Gloria must decide if Ilian is her greatest danger...or the only one who can keep her alive. *** The empire he ran away from, bent at his feet, not because of his bloodline, but because even devils knew better than to challenge him."