She only wanted to survive college. Instead, she stepped into a mansion where shadows watched... and desire had fangs.

Eva Harper is a fiercely independent college student scraping by on grit and late-night shifts, always one unexpected bill away from disaster. With no family left and nowhere to turn, a mysterious housekeeping job at a reclusive billionaire's estate seems too strange to trust-but too desperate to refuse.

The rules are strict. The grounds are locked. The employer? Unseen.

Until one night, a voice calls her to dinner.

Ren Wellington lives in silence and secrets, locked in a mansion as haunted as his past. Handsome, commanding, and deeply cursed, Ren watches Eva with interest that borders on obsession-but beneath his polished restraint is a hunger he can barely control.

When desire ignites between them, so does the truth. And Eva learns there is no such thing as a harmless secret behind Wellington House's iron gates.

Torn between the loyal guard who wants to save her and the powerful man who would ruin her just to keep her, Eva must decide:

Will she escape this world of night-or choose to belong to it?