Chase Sterling always felt like furniture. The kind you don't notice, the kind that's easy to shove in a corner and forget. He was used to it: people looked right through him, brushed him off like lint. But it only takes one phone call to erase a lifetime of being overlooked. When his estranged family meets a tragic end, Chase suddenly finds himself in charge of the sprawling Sterling fortune. Turns out, riches aren't the only thing the family left him. There's a curse running through his blood, warping love into something hungry and dangerous, impossible to escape.

Vivian Ashford never set out to blow Chase's life to smithereens. Just one decision (a sharp, ruthless move at graduation) was all it took to set their worlds spinning out of control. While Vivian soaks up the Hollywood limelight and collects red-carpet headlines, Chase slips into his new role as Manhattan's most intimidating heir. But no matter how far they run, something keeps yanking them back together, like a stitch in an old wound that refuses to heal.

The camera finds things I didn't expect it to find, which is the specific quality of a documentary camera in a real space, that it locates the truth of a thing in places you weren't looking.


It finds the morning quality. The first week the crew is with us, they film the mornings, which is when the scheduled window days have their specific quality of a day beginning with the knowledge that the window is coming, and what the camera finds in the mornings of window days is a quality I would not have been able to describe without seeing it from outside myself, which is the specific quality of two people who know what the day contains and are moving through the early hours of it with the full weight of that knowledge visible in the way they occupy their space.


Chapter 237 - "Behind the Scenes"