Everybody loves Elliot Mercer.
He’s charming. Brilliant. Sweet enough to remember your coffee order and dangerous enough to make jealousy look innocent.
Nobody knows what he’s capable of.
Nobody except Ronan Vale.
Ronan has spent years knowing there’s something darker beneath his stepbrother’s perfect smile. He knows the possessiveness. The obsession. The parts of Elliot that only surface behind closed doors.
He should know better than to want them.
But when a student from Elliot’s university disappears and Bellweather begins whispering about what happened to him, secrets start piling up faster than bodies—and the line between protecting someone and becoming their accomplice begins to disappear.
Because Ronan may not know everything Elliot is hiding.
But he knows one thing with absolute certainty:
Whatever Elliot is, he’s his.