Louis Anderson despised women with an intensity that consumed him entirely. When he married Skylar White—a desperate twenty-year-old from a struggling family—it was purely transactional: her family received salvation, he received a wife to torment. Day after day, he made her existence unbearable. He humiliated her, controlled her, pushed her to the breaking point. Yet beneath the cruelty simmered something neither of them saw coming: the razor-thin boundary between hatred and obsession, between rage and desire. Louis didn't realize he was falling until it was too late. His feelings for Skylar had transformed into something consuming, something that terrified him. But before he could bridge the chasm he'd created, she vanished without a trace. Now he's left with two burning questions: Can he track down the woman who haunts his every thought? Will Skylar ever forgive him enough to return? In a mansion filled with tension and secrets, possession becomes protection, and cruelty masks a love so fierce it borders on madness. Skylar holds the key to his redemption—if she's willing to give him a second chance.