The Heir's Costly Possession

At Grimshaw Academy, Kieran appears to be the perfect heir, but his father's abuse has left a predator beneath the polish, and he wants a soul to destroy rather than a girl to love.

He dulls his own damage by fastening onto people already broken, until he finds Clara Vane, a scholarship student whose scars paid for her place among them.

Poor, discarded, and drowning in pills, alcohol, and deliberate self-destruction, Clara mirrors the darkest impulses he recognizes in himself.

Their obsession is the one luxury his father will not allow.

To keep her from that reach, Kieran must claim her completely and take her apart until nothing remains but him, even if saving her from the monster means becoming the nightmare.