"I'm not your prisoner." "No," he says, watching me like I'm something he's already decided to keep. "You're something much more interesting." Dario Reyes has spent nine years becoming exactly what the Order needs—precise, controlled, and utterly expendable. When he's assigned to infiltrate the inner circle of a centuries-old vampire who has outlived every attempt to destroy him, Dario does what he always does: he makes himself the perfect weapon. Even if that means letting himself be captured. Alistair Crowe has ruled from the shadows for four hundred years, building a world where nothing surprises him and no one lasts long enough to matter. But the hunter delivered into his home isn't like the others. Dario is quiet where others posture, unreadable where others break—and worst of all, he isn't afraid. What begins as a calculated operation becomes something far more dangerous. Proximity turns into fascination. Observation becomes obsession. And the line between predator and prey starts to blur in ways neither of them can control. Dario is there to destroy him. Alistair intends to understand him. But when two men built on control collide, something has to give—and it might not be the one they expect. How long can you pretend it's just a mission… when the thing you're meant to kill is the only one who truly sees you?