HIS PAST WILL DESTROY HER FUTURE A billionaire artist who is hated by the whole town and hasn't left his home in years after a tragic accident. A free-spirited teacher who is desperate to find out the missing piece of her past. Ivan Ivan Dufort is one of the four heirs of the billion-dollar Dufort Tech company, as well as an infamous artist known for this dark and twisted paintings. Haunted by a tragic past that has the entire town of Easthaven against him, Ivan has isolated himself in his penthouse for the last three years, talking to no one but his daughter, Lily. Cold and distant, his heart has been frozen over for as long as he remembers. And he doesn't think anything will break the ice that's filled his life. Until he met her. His new employee. The only person allowed in his home. His dangerous temptation. Hazel Eternal sunshine Hazel Torres has just been fired, and when she moves to Easthaven, she has two get a job and finally find out the truth of her past. What she doesn't expect is to start working for Ivan Dufort, the cold and detached billionaire's son who is hated by the whole town. She knows she shouldn't get close to him. His heart of ice and blazing darkness inside him will only burn her in the end. But she can't help but get invested. And when she falls in too deep, she fears there's now way to turn back. And she's not even sure she wants to. ** Their paths were never supposed to cross, but when it does, they soon realize that his past can change her future forever, and when the ghosts of their lives begin to catch up to them, Hazel and Ivan aren't sure if they'll destroy themselves, or each other. Abstract Hearts is a single-dad, dark contemporary romance. It is book one in the four-part Dufort Dynasty series, a series of dark and steamy romances that follow the lives of the Dufort brothers, heirs to a billionaire corporation.