Description：

"Do you believe a person can be tamed?"

Dr. Julian Cross can't forget Jade Mercer.

When the Forensic Evaluation Center asks him to assess a frail teenage inmate linked to a horrific fire and the deaths of her birth parents, the case looks simple at first: a disturbed girl, a violent crime, a confession waiting to be explained. But Jade is nothing like the monster the file suggests. She is frightened, fractured, and carrying the scars of a life most people would never survive.

As Julian digs deeper, he uncovers a childhood shaped by abandonment, possession, humiliation, and the kind of cruelty that hides behind the word love. Between a controlling adoptive mother, a birth family eager to bury the past, and years of damage no one wanted to name, Jade's story becomes more than a criminal evaluation. It becomes a descent into the making of a human disaster.

The deeper Julian goes, the less certain he is of where victimhood ends and violence begins. And if he can't find the truth buried inside Jade's shattered past, a girl who has already lost everything may be condemned as something she was forced to become.

Author Biography：

Luna Sterling is a contemporary romance author known for emotionally rich stories of love, longing, and second chances.