DESIREE HARRISON: She was the adopted child of the Harrison family in Manhattan. She had a nice childhood, and was raised good. Though, when her mother died of pancreatic cancer, when Desiree was 18, it sent her father in a dark depression. With the uncontrollable sadness it made her father take his own life, a year later. Now with both her adopted parents embracing up in heaven, while she suffers grief, and so much pain on earth, she found herself making herself feel better in a bar. She forgets the pain and melancholy glass after glass, shot after shot. In her drunken relief she recklessly is taken by a stranger- a man. She didn't care. She wakes up in a god forsaken place where her innocence is violated everyday- until Vladimir Volkov. VLADIMIR VOLKOV: He is the best mercenary in the Orlov Bratva. His past was rough, from an abusive drunk father, to his mother being an angel in the ground. He was raised on the streets of a ghetto in Russia, and was taken in by the Mafia at only nine years old. He was trained to kill at a young age. He had seen things that would make most people's blood curdle, and turn cold. He's experienced, and suffered through things no kid should ever suffer. His childhood was stolen by the cocking of a gun. Through his hardships he keeps to himself, he is quiet, but rash at times. Has a temper like no other. His shell is made of titanium, but until Desiree comes into his life, he's never realized how easily someone's walls can be taken down.

Eliza is just a simple collage graduate, just a casual girl. She believes she's utterly uninteresting, nothing really that special in the whole fold of life, but the Kai Drakes thinks otherwise. All Kairo Drakes has ever known is darkness, pain, solitude, and the sheerness of oblivion. The feeling of love, happiness, and joy is so foreign to him. Until he meets her. Or perhaps in his memory re-meets her. The beauty and kindness she shows to him, turns the next page in his life. From rereading one chapter in his life over and over again, and trying to forget others, he reads a new one that may change him forever. In this dangerous relationship, will the light cancel out the darkness, or will the darkness cancel out the light? Will his secret destroy everything he ever wanted?