Prince Elio Arden’s twenty-first birthday turns him from royal darling into a wanted monster. He has awakened as a Fork who craves the flesh of people known as Cakes. His adoptive brother Rowan risks everything to smuggle him out before he is sent to Harrowgate, an island prison. But freedom brings him straight into the arms of Nico Vescari—a seductive mafia boss with a hidden connection to his childhood. Then Adrian, a brilliant scientist, offers an experimental device that could silence Elio’s hunger. All three men are Cakes. All three want him. And none finds it easy to let him go. Caught between royal persecution, mafia betrayal, and an experiment that intensifies the very desire it should suppress, Elio refuses to become the monster his kingdom fears. Yet the men who protect him can also become his captors. When love and hunger feel the same, can Elio choose whom to trust—and keep the right to choose at all?
