Dove

WE ARE BUILT ON SECRETS AND RUIN.

She's spent her life on the outside looking in.

He was never meant to let her get close.

Vienna has never been the kind of girl people notice first. She's quiet, kind, and far more familiar with loneliness than she'd ever admit. So, when she finds herself digging through a cemetery in the middle of the night searching for answers, the last thing she expects is to find a stranger standing among the graves

She assumes she'll never see him again.

Until she discovers the man from the cemetery is Professor Ellis Locke.

Sharp, watchful, and impossible to read, Ellis didn't come to Willow Hill to teach. He came chasing secrets of his own, and getting close to Vienna was never part of the plan. But every time danger closes in, he's there. The more Vienna gets to know him, the more she realizes Ellis isn't keeping his distance because he doesn't care. He's doing it because once he crosses that line, there will be no going back.

What starts as curiosity soon leads Vienna to buried secrets, sealed records, and a truth Willow Hill was never meant to give up. Every answer uncovers another lie until it becomes clear the school was built on them.

And the deeper Vienna digs, the more certain she becomes that Ellis is hiding something dangerous of his own.

Ellis tells her to stay away. Her curiosity drags her deeper.

And somewhere between the man determined to protect her and the truth determined to destroy her, Vienna realizes there's no turning back.