In a world where seventeen synchronized strikes can happen with no traceable communication, where brilliant minds implement solutions with suspicious perfection, and where an asteroid arrives at exactly the moment needed to transform society-can love survive when built on shadows? When Brock Tavrek meets Mila Doroshenko in the corridors of European power, their chemistry is immediate and undeniable. She anticipates his thoughts before he speaks them. Her analytical brilliance is matched only by capabilities that seem to defy explanation. And despite every instinct warning him that she knows more than she's revealing, he's drawn to her with an intensity he can't resist. As global catastrophe accelerates the implementation of a surveillance system that promises safety through systematic identification, two people on opposite sides of an investigation discover that the most dangerous deceptions often come wrapped in the most beautiful packages. Their romance unfolds against a backdrop of international conspiracy, where every tender moment is shadowed by questions neither dare voice. This is a story of our times-where security and freedom collide, where fear drives policy, and where the price of safety may be higher than humanity can afford to pay. It's about the choices we make when survival is at stake, and the systems we accept when the alternative seems like chaos. But most of all, it's about the power of connection in a world falling apart, and whether love can transcend the lies we tell ourselves to survive.