Isabella Burke was raised in shadow - forged by discipline, molded by her father's cruelty, and taught that love was nothing more than a weakness dressed in poetry. Tom Riddle believed much the same. Power was the only truth he trusted, and affection, the most dangerous illusion of all.
But when two minds carved from the same darkness meet, something unexpected happens. In a world built on ambition and control, love becomes the most perilous form of magic - one neither of them was prepared to face.