Chiaroscuro

chiaroscuro (n. kee-ah-roe-SKEW-roe)
in art, the treatment of light and shadow to render the illusion of depth.

When aspiring Ivy League student Eadlyn Finch has her wallet stolen in a coffee shop, she thinks her luck can’t get much worse. But when she meets the thief, mysteriously cold and analytically brilliant James Ferrias, she realizes it can.

From extravagant dinners to pageants, fate throws them together at every turn. At first masquerading as a pretty bad boy with nothing inside, James is hiding much more than what he’s willing to admit. If his father is the CEO of a multibillion-dollar corporation, then why is James living in the slums of New Santiago? Who is Belle, and why is her identity something he’ll do anything to hide?

Quitting his internship, James begins to work at Eadlyn’s coffee shop. They are two among a group of dedicated employees who are taken to Switzerland to supervise a new chain location there. In a new country, new people—and old skeletons from James’s closet—come into play to form an intricate web of corruption and lies, and they begin to realize that there is much more than fate at play.