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Paradise Island, 852. In the heart of the Underground city, where lamps replace stars and light is rationed like the last of one’s coins, Captain Ackerman has come to hunt a shadow. Nikolai Rovoff — nobleman, prey, master of a kingdom built on the trade of bodies and silences.
To reach his target, he must assume the role of a surface client, wealthy and ravenous, and slip into the establishment’s privileged circles. His plan is simple: use Rovoff’s favorite as leverage to get to him.
But Mikasa is not the docile commodity she pretends to be. Behind her flawless appearance lies a formidable intelligence that might become the weapon he never dared to hope for.
Yet between two solitary souls who only know how to exist behind masks, usefulness begins to resemble recognition — and recognition, something even more searing. In a place where time is bought by the glass, where every breath has a price and every glance a double bottom, the only question that remains is which of the two will be the first to lower their guard — and whether, deep within that vast vault, there will be enough truth left in them to survive the gravity of what they are beginning to feel for each other.