❝we were separated by a locked gate, and the keys were lost.❞ Valentina perfected everything on her own, even with her popularity, she was a mystery everybody was trying to figure out. She switched her mistakes into lessons, and built her walls high up to block everybody out. But then, Nicolas Grayson broke that wall from the first brick. He was the detective, though. He watched her from the very beginning, knowing her every move, calculating when it is the right time to step in and end her. In his head, he had his reasons. Enough reasons to want her dead. But does they really count if she didn't know about them? He watched her, intending to make her fall to his mercy. But in a swift change of plans, she becomes his obsession. Book one in the ❝Silver Tree❞ series.