Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim.

Katerina Dalton nasceu com algumas maldições: os genes azarados de sua família, um casamento arranjado e aniversários fracassados. Decidida a resolver pelo menos um de seus problemas, ela foge da ultrapassada tradição familiar para reiniciar na grandiosa Nova Iorque de forma independente. Sua nova vida trará uma série de novidades, como lidar com um cliente temperamental apelidado de "Próspero"- um homem misterioso e amante das obras de Shakespeare. Contudo a chegada inesperada do noivo prometido vai entrelaçar a vida de Kate com os caminhos desses dois homens que têm mais em comum do que ela imagina com a resolução de seus problemas e a tomada definitiva de seu próprio destino.