She wanted life. He needed her blood.Cora Shaw will do anything to live. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in her senior year of college, she is given a choice: Call hospice, or seek out a mysterious man who promises an impossible—and insanely dangerous—cure. She knows him only as Mr. Thorne, a reclusive billionaire who seems full of contradictions. A man with strange, impossible powers over her. A man, she discovers, who is not a man at all. In the first book of the Aethereal Bonds series, Cora makes a deal with a devil—and gets more than she bargained for.