Aiden Vale never wanted to get involved. He's a med student with a sharp tongue, a tragic past, and one rule: don't get too close. But when he saves Kael Duskborne, a reckless stranger with blood on his hands and secrets in his smile, Aiden's life is pulled into a world of syndicates, shadows, and lies. The deeper Aiden falls, the more tangled the truth becomes. His sister isn't who she appears to be. His parents' deaths weren't an accident. And Kael... Kael may be both the one person who can protect him and the one who destroyed everything. In a city built on betrayal, where family bleeds into enemies and love tastes like poison, Aiden must decide: cling to the life he's known, or burn it all down for a future written in blood. Nothing is as it seems. And some flowers only bloom in the dark.
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