She came for the cheap rent. She stayed because Viktor Wright already knew her name, because the city needed saving, and because six-foot-four ancient vampire kings who say twelve words a day and leave books outside your door are apparently her specific problem.Isabela Torrez is a broke folklore PhD with nowhere else to go and entirely too many questions. The gothic mansion has one rule. She breaks it on night one and keeps breaking it until the whole underground is on fire.

Eimee Vasari studies liars for a living. She can spot a false confession from a single sentence. She can hear the exact moment language bends under the weight of a lie.She didn't hear Oleg Clement coming.He arrived at her university as a visiting scholar. Quiet, watchful, too precise to be what he claimed. She noticed the cracks in his cover before she noticed the way he looked at her, like a man cataloguing something he intended to keep.By the time she learned the ...

Raven Vale has spent eight years learning to be looked at on her own terms. As a cam girl in Seattle, she controls every frame — the lighting, the angle, what she gives and what she keeps. No one gets in unless she decides they do.She doesn't know Damien Voss is already watching.He's a tech billionaire with a gift for attention — for seeing what other people miss, for finding the truth underneath the performance. He watched her for eight months before she knew his name. By ...