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In Novacrest City built on wealth, corruption, and hidden crimes, Dr. Chloe Rain is known as one of the most precise criminal profilers in the field. At 32, she has built her reputation on logic, detachment, and an unbreakable rule: never let emotions interfere with a case.She reads criminals like open books. Predicts them. Understands them. Controls the distance between truth and illusion.Until one case breaks her pattern.A high-profile disappearance draws her into the orbit of James Dean Luca, a 41-year-old billionaire businessman and the powerful force behind a global IT empire—polished, intelligent, untouchable. A man who moves through the world like nothing can touch him… and nothing ever proves otherwise.But Chloe knows better.Behind his composed smile lies something she cannot quantify. Something that does not fit into any psychological model she has ever studied. James does not behave like a suspect. He behaves like someone who already understands her.Their first meeting is not just an introduction—it is a collision.Intoxicating. Controlled. Dangerous.From the moment their eyes meet, Chloe feels the shift. The case stops being only about missing people. It becomes about him. About the gaps in his story. About the silence he carries like armor.The deeper she investigates, the more reality begins to fracture around her.Evidence disappears before she can secure it. Witnesses retract statements. Entire leads vanish as if they were never real. Every step forward pulls her deeper into a psychological maze she did not realize she had entered.And James is always there.Watching. Guiding. Waiting.Never directly stopping her—only redirecting her.As if the entire investigation is not something she is conducting… but something being conducted on her.What terrifies Chloe most is not the possibility that James Dean Luca is guilty.It is the possibility that he is not just one step ahead of her—but inside her mind, already shaping her thoughts before she can recognize them.As professional boundaries collapse and obsession replaces logic, Chloe finds herself caught in a dangerous psychological tension where attraction becomes interference, and truth becomes increasingly difficult to separate from desire.Every conversation feels like a game.Every silence feels like manipulation.Every encounter feels like surrender.And as the case escalates, Chloe is forced to confront the most dangerous truth of all:She was sent to profile a monster.But she may be falling for the man behind him.And now she no longer knows whether her mission is to expose James Dean Luca…or to understand why she cannot let him go.ic_default