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He presses a hand to my chest. “It’s still beating,” he murmurs, his breath a whisper against my lips. “As long as it’s beating, you’re okay.”

Cora Lawson expects her sister’s birthday party to end with a hangover or, at worst, an embarrassing morning-after. What she doesn’t expect is to have her wallet stolen, leaving her with no way to get home—forced instead to rely on the last person she’d ever want help from: Dean Asher. Her sister’s fiancé. Her lifelong nemesis. The man who’s made it his mission to drive her crazy for the past fifteen years.

But a stolen wallet quickly becomes the least of her problems. After suffering a blow to the head, Cora wakes up in a nightmare—chained in a basement, with Dean shackled beside her. Their years of pranks and insults suddenly don’t matter, because now survival is the only thing that does. If they want to escape, they’ll have to work together.

What they don’t realize is that their captor has plans for them—plans that will force them to confront everything they thought they knew about each other. As the line between hatred and something far more complicated begins to blur, Cora and Dean will find themselves bound together in ways they never expected. No matter what happens next, one thing is certain: neither of them will walk away unchanged.