"She gave him the heart he asked for.He just never knew which woman he was asking."

Nicole once promised Jason anything-even her life.So when he locked her inside an ivy-choked mansion, whispering that only her organs could save the woman he truly loved, she believed saving Vivian was the ultimate proof of devotion.Three escapes, one pregnancy, countless pleas-every time she ran, he dragged her back with kisses sharp as blades.On Valentine's Day, still breathing, still pregnant, Nicole was carved open on an operating table while Jason watched.Her heart-still beating-was tossed into a trash bag like medical waste.

Then the truth surfaced: Vivian was never sick.She only wanted to see how far Jason would go for her.He went all the way.

Carrying Nicole's discarded heart in a cooler of ice, Jason walked into Vivian's glittering party and poured it at her feet.Days later, he burned the mansion to the ground with himself inside, clutching the ashes of the only woman who ever loved him without conditions-and the child he never allowed to be born.

Some fires cleanse.Some only reveal what was already ash.

A dark, gothic tale of love that devours, obsession that butchers, and the moment a man finally learns the price of the heart he demanded.

No redemption.Only reckoning.