Gothic scholar Zephyrine Blackwood arrives at the remote, storm-lashed Croft Manor in the Scottish Highlands to catalog an ancient art collection. She expects centuries of history; she finds a legacy of secrets, a curse that binds the Croft bloodline, and chilling whispers of women who vanished.
The estate's master, the formidable and darkly possessive Atticus Croft, is an immovable force of nature, a man as untamed as the storm that cuts them off from the world. Trapped together within the manor's isolating walls, Zephyrine's meticulous mind must race to uncover the truth of the "Crimson Pact" before she, like the mistresses who came before her, is utterly consumed.
But as his demanding gaze locks with hers, she realizes the greatest danger isn't the family curse—it's the desperate, raw hunger she sees in his storm-colored eyes, a pull she’s utterly lost to, and never wants to escape.