She can see when love dies. Sage Martinez photographs it. Chicago's most tenacious investigative journalist is one Valentine's Day assignment away from escaping the fluff-piece trenches forever. One promotion. One last story about happy couples before she can chase real news. Then she discovers the pattern. The golden shimmer that appears when year-long relationships shatter. The impossible dust nobody else can see. Five couples. Five breakups. Five perfectly timed implosions that defy coincidence. This is the story that will make her career-if she can uncover the truth before whoever is behind this realizes she's watching. Her investigation tears open a hidden world where ancient forces once controlled human hearts. Where love was never meant to be free. Where the system that kept humanity bound for millennia has collapsed-and something deadly has taken its place. Sage wanted the truth. She's about to discover that some mysteries come with a dangerously attractive source who knows answers to questions she hasn't asked. A man who might be part of the problem-or the solution she never expected to find. Will uncovering the story cost her everything, or will it reveal a love worth breaking all the rules?