I've fallen for a monster. A man who doesn't ask for what he wants-he takes. And now, he's taken me. Rowan Miller isn't who I thought he was. He's Nero De Luca, the ex-consigliere of a notorious New York mob family, and he's been lying to me from the moment we met. If I return home to Darkwater Hollow, it will be a death sentence. But staying with Nero means diving headfirst into the perilous underworld of New York-a place I'm ill-equipped to navigate. I should despise Nero for his betrayal, and a part of me does. But as I'm drawn deeper into his world, I begin to see that not all darkness is the same. Now, I'm caught between two worlds and two versions of a man I thought I knew. Can I trust Nero to protect me from even greater dangers? Or is my only chance at safety escaping his iron grasp and running away? When He Takes is book 2 of the Fallen God duet. Nero and Blake's story begins in book 1, When He Desires.