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This was honestly a great read... and my first RuNyx book..
SALEM SALAZAR is a hurricane in a perfectly pressed blazer. Controlled. Calculated. Quietly burning. She doesn’t believe in happy endings—she believes in answers. Her older sister disappeared at Mortimer University, and now Salem is here on a mission: figure out what the hell happened and who’s responsible. Her legacy status gets her through the door, but it’s the weight of her grief and rage that drives every move.
She came to uncover secrets.
She wasn’t supposed to find him.
CAZIMIR VAN DER WAAL is the problem you don’t see coming until your world’s already in flames. He’s chaos in human form—an artist, a TA, a walking warning label. Mysterious. Beautiful. Soaked in secrets and darkness. And from the moment he lays eyes on Salem, he’s hooked. There’s something about her—those gold eyes, that sharp mind, the way she walks into a room like she’s already won. He hates it. He craves it.
She wants to dig up the past.
He’s the one who buried it.
Their connection? It’s not sweet. It’s a slow descent into madness. He stalks her like a predator. She plays his games like she’s been planning this all along. It’s cat and mouse—but neither one is sure who’s actually holding the knife.
Everything about them is forbidden. Toxic. Addictive. But they can’t stop. Salem keeps poking into Mortimer’s secrets—disappearances, deaths, societies that whisper in shadows—and Caz? He’s drowning in his own lies, terrified that she’ll see the real him underneath the obsession and the art.
And still… they fall.
It’s brutal. It’s violent. It’s terrifying.
And somehow—it’s love.
By the end, they're not the same. She isn't just the girl looking for her sister anymore. And he isn't just the broken artist hiding behind a brush and a smirk. They're something darker. Something dangerous. Something bound.
Everything's changed but at the same time, nothing has. They're in love and together... through it all.
Would I read this again? Sure, why not?
Would I recommend?? Yes!!!