​"Please-I just-I want to go home-please-" ​Her voice cracked, dissolving into incoherent sobs, fragments of a life that no longer belonged to her. She begged until her throat was raw, pleading for a mercy that Adam didn't seem to possess. But as the days blur into a terrifying dependency, the nightmare begins to shift. ​Locked in a battle of wills, Elara finds herself fighting something more dangerous than Adam's control: her own traitor heart, beating for the man who broke her.