VB

Every morning, Mélisande Cross wakes with another missing hour, another unexplained bruise and two fading wounds hidden beneath her scarf. Every night, Damon Salvatore returns to make her forget him. He only needs the beautiful archivist for her access to Jonathan Gilbert’s journals the final pieces of his plan to free Katherine from the tomb. Compelling Mélisande should have been simple. Feeding from her should have meant nothing. Instead, Damon begins lingering after the bite. Watching becomes wanting. Hunger becomes obsession. And when vervain restores every stolen memory, Mélisande remembers exactly what the monster in her bedroom did to her. She should expose him. She should kill him. She should never crave his mouth on her throat again. But Damon has spent one hundred and forty-five years loving a woman trapped beneath Mystic Falls, and Mélisande may be the only person capable of making him forget her. Or: Damon Salvatore can compel Mélisande to do almost anything except forgive him, trust him or fall in love. For those, he’ll have to beg.