At twenty-four, Nihan Cansu has spent half her life on the run. From what, she has never been told. Her questions have only been met with lies and tears. Yet her mother is the only love she has ever known, and for that, Nihan would follow her to the end of the world. That end is Kercheville; a mystic island bearing the name of God's fallen angel. A place so twisted by its own laws and shadows that it's a wonder it exists at all. And it is here that Nihan begins to unravel the truth. Caught between three men bound by hatred yet divided by ambition-one a spoiled crowned prince, one broken beyond repair, one a hidden psychopath-Nihan must decide whose hand to take as the path before her darkens... unaware that only one can lead her away from her cursed fate.

Alana Del Rey Hart only has one goal after graduation and that is spending the summer running the cafe her late mother left her responsible for. Unfortunately, the Donovan's- one of the richest families in town- have other plans for the cafe, with the exception of Jensen Donovan, whose plans only involve her. Unable to deny her attraction to him she agrees to a summer fling, putting in place a series of rules he can't wait to break... OR Eight years ago; the mysterious death of two women in a small town in Southern California left two families broken... Their children: Alana Hart and Jensen Donovan meet in the heat of summer, drawing up a series of rules they must follow to keep from expanding the holes their mother's deaths left in their hearts... so would finding out what really happened to their mothers be enough for them to ditch the rules?