Nova Mercer knows exactly how dangerous a feeling can be.
Before she disappeared, she was Halo—the hidden source of magic behind The Ascension, a cult that turned hope, fear, and desperation into devotion. Five years later, she has a new name, a quiet job in Hollow Creek, and one rule: never become visible again.
Then Nocturne Riot finds her.
Riven, Elias, Bram, and Silas are four world-famous monster rock stars preparing for a final international tour before the band steps away from the spotlight. They want Nova to build something no stage designer can: an experience their fans will feel in their bones. The money could buy her freedom. The job could give her a future.
It could also expose everything she has spent years hiding.
Working beside a demon, an empath, an Orc, and a dangerously unreadable guitarist means Nova’s carefully sealed emotions do not stay sealed for long. Attraction becomes trust. Trust becomes something far harder to run from. And every time she uses the same gift that once helped control thousands, she risks becoming the weapon she escaped.
Because her past has not forgotten Halo.
And this time, hiding may be impossible when the safest place she has ever found is standing under the brightest lights in the world.