When Gracie knocks on Elias Kane's door with a letter from her dead mother, she doesn't know she's walking into the life of a man already drowning in regret. Elias is a writer who's spent years hiding from the ghosts of his past. She's the one ghost he never expected to see. Their bond starts innocent, built on shared loneliness and the ache of everything lost. But something darker grows between them, something they both try to ignore until it's too late. When their worlds finally collide, the truth will leave them no room for escape.

Lily lives in the ash of her mother's death, beneath the shadow of a man who has hated her from her first breath. But in the silence of night, a figure rises from the darkness, the Nocturne. He sees what her father cannot, the stubborn bloom of a wildflower pushing through dirt. He takes her into his secret garden, where beauty and terror weave through the shadows. Only when the mask falls does Lily realize her savior and her tormentor share the same face.