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Alessia Cullen was never meant to exist.
Years ago, Carlisle Cullen risked everything to save a human woman hidden away in Volterra, and the Cullens raised the child she bore as their own. To them, Alessia is family. To the Volturi, she is a reminder of defiance never forgiven.
The visit when Alessia is three, to see what became of the small, fragile, human. That should have been the end of it. But Demetri, the Volturi's infamous tracker, caught her scent then. And it never left him.
Now Alessia is grown. Restless. Beautiful. And Demetri is no longer content to only remember the sound of her pulse or the reminder of her scent he wants her, all of her, in a way that borders on ruinous. To Alessia, he is everything she should fear: lethal, possessive, obsessive. To Demetri, she is the one thing he cannot surrender, not to Aro, not to the Cullens, not even to fate.
Caught between the family who saved her and the predator who claims her, Alessia must decide what it means to survive when love feels like captivity, and danger tastes like devotion.
Because once Demetri has found her, there is no escape.