After losing Caelum, Charlotte returns to Salvador with nothing but her grief and the Andr scale Malcom left her-a warm, unsettling pulse against her sternum that never lets her forget what she has lost.
She wants quiet mornings and anonymity.
Instead, she finds Santiago.
Roguish, sharp-eyed, impossible to shake, he senses the danger stalking her street long before she does. Charlotte resents his presence, resists his charm, yet cannot deny the way he sees straight through her loneliness.
But Salvador is no longer safe.
Nevalas are vanishing. Streets whisper with movement unseen. Windows open to silence. And Charlotte's scale heats whenever the creature draws near-because it is hunting her, not by accident, but by design.
When the threat finally strikes, Santiago is the one who pulls her from the wreckage, both of them breathless and shaking in the dark.
Now the danger is closing in, and Charlotte must choose: keep running from the past that broke her, or stand her ground with the one man who refuses to let her face the darkness alone.