GILDED RUIN

She was raised to obey. He needed her to be used.

Elena Voss has lived in The Hollow-a walled, isolated compound the outside world refers to as a cult- ruled by a man who dictates every aspect of their lives, including the names they are allowed to bear. When the compound is dismantled, Elena escapes with only a stolen ID and a hot vehicle.

She needs to leave her cult life, where she meets Dante Marchetti.

Dangerous, magnetic, and heir to one of the city's most powerful crime families, Dante did not come to campus to get an education; he came for her. Elena is the key to a debt his family is owed, and she does not even know it. She is supposed to be easy. An innocent, naive girl who trusts too soon.

But Elena survived The Hollow by learning to read people, and the longer Dante keeps her close, the more difficult it is to remember she is only a means to an end.