Dr. Mya Rivers knows better than to get too close to the darkness her patients bring into her office—but she’s never faced the likes of Sebastian Caputo. A dangerous heir to an Italian mafia dynasty, Sebastian is as magnetic as he is terrifying, scarred in ways that go far beyond his burned hands and back. But as Mya delves deeper into his psyche, she realizes Sebastian isn’t the only one staring back at her from his haunted eyes.

Riccardo, Sebastian’s fractured and unpredictable alter, is everything Sebastian tries to suppress—ruthless, obsessive, and uncontrollable. While Sebastian keeps his darkness behind tightly locked walls, Riccardo lets it burn freely. And he’s fixated on Mya. He doesn’t want her help; he wants her. Body, soul, and mind. Using Sebastian’s guilt, Mya’s professional boundaries, and every thread of her vulnerability, Riccardo will do whatever it takes to make her his.

As Mya becomes trapped in the web of Sebastian’s dissociative identity disorder, she’s forced to confront a harrowing truth: she isn’t just a doctor trying to fix a broken man—she’s a prisoner in a twisted relationship with two sides of the same person. In Sebastian’s world, love isn’t soft—it’s power, it’s possession, and it’s deadly.

As the line between doctor and captor blurs, Mya must decide: will she escape the man who’s claimed her, or will she fall deeper into the madness of his obsession?

One thing is certain—there’s no walking away from Sebastian Caputo. Not alive.