THE QUIET BETWEEN

For two years, Ares has lived in the shadows, watching Iris Vrettos from the audience of every performance, memorizing every smile, every step, every breath. She has no idea he exists.

Until the night her father announces her future.

Forced into an arranged marriage with a man she has never met, Iris finds herself trapped between the expectations of Chicago's Greek underworld and the quiet life she has always dreamed of beyond it. Graceful, intelligent, and endlessly patient, she refuses to let the cold stranger who now shares her home steal the last pieces of herself.

But Ares Acheronis never wanted her heart.

He wanted revenge.

Marrying Iris was never about love. It was above the final move in a carefully planned game to destroy her father, Dimitri Vrettos - the man Ares has spent his life believing murdered his parents in a ruthless bid for power.

Caught between loyalty and betrayal, predator and prey begin to blur together. The man who watched Iris from the darkness finds himself willing to burn the world to protect her, while the woman who spent her life dreaming of escape must decide whether freedom is worth losing the only man who has truly seen her.

Some obsessions are born in darkness.

Others become love.