"Dreaming of you was the only thing keeping me sane." Anya Donovan keeps her nose in a book and prefers to be alone, in the shadow of her popular twin sister Allie, and tries her best to get through life without a certain person walking all over her. Graduation is just around the corner, and she can't believe she will finally leave the craziness of her life with her best friend, both planning to move to the Big Apple, New York City. Then, at the peak of her having the best time of her life, all hell breaks loose, and her dreams might have to be on hold. Five years later, she is still stuck in the same cell, begging anyone or anything to help her escape the hell hole that will haunt her for the rest of her life. But...she has to keep the pleading behind her now cold soul. Xavier Hastings thought he would never face his enemy from high school after moving away. Then, he gets another cold missing girl case. He never would have thought Anya's picture would be inside. Now, after five years, they have more evidence to prove she has been held captive by the worldwide sex trafficking trade, the largest in the world, located in Chicago, Illinois. To this day, Chicago PD and the FBI have been trying to bring them down. He knows he has to find the woman he never thought he would care about until now. Along the way, they both begin to have dreams of the other. Anya thinks it's a little pawn to make her go crazy, but Xavier knows the truth. Will he reveal this secret or keep it to himself?

𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒, renowned CEO and entrepreneur. Ruthlessness was all she knew after her first love disappeared without a trace. Worst of it all was she was carrying his child, who turned out to be more of a blessing than a curse. Celeste worked her way around the single mother life and built an empire at the feet of her daughter. As time passed over, she never anticipated the return of her lover, the father of her daughter. Does he deserve a second chance? Will Celeste ever forgive him for leaving? 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐗𝐄𝐑

Handsome. Sexy. Mischievous. Naughty. Secretive. Rich. Bad. Every girl's dream. Amir. Beautiful. Hopeful. Religious. Innocent. Driven. Determined. Good. Every bad boy's nightmare. Annie. They're each other's nightmares. A horrifying, twisted event links them together in a way they'd never thought of. Will the heartbreaker, the smoker, the drug abuser, the Amir be able to cope with the sinless, the angel, the hijabi, the Annie? Read on to find out what happens to Annie when she's forced to live with the beast, as day by day she uncovers dark, eerie secrets and how the beast became who he is. After all, no one is born a beast. Something changes them. Something utterly horrible and disturbing. And Annie is determined to find out. Why does Amir act like he doesn't care when deep, deep inside, he really does? Why does he pretend to be someone he never was? Why does he push everyone away when his heart yearns to do anything but? What destroyed him so bad that he has turned into a beast? There's only one way to find out.