Fate isn’t always fair, and love can be deadly.Emily’s time at Crestford University should have been ordinary. new friends, fresh beginnings, and the thrill of stepping into adulthood. But from the moment she arrives, something feels off. There’s a weight in the air, a tension she can’t explain, and a presence she can’t ignore. Raymond Crestford is everything the stories say he is. Talented, enigmatic, and devastatingly handsome. But there’s more to him than meets the eye. He knows her in ways she doesn’t yet understand. And what he knows could change everything.Bound by a curse older than their memories, they are caught in a web where love comes at the highest cost.Can they survive fate, desire, and the shadows of the past, or is their love written in blood?