Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo

“Find the Gauntlet, make the descent. Come get me, Stern.” He paused then, and his golden eyes flashed open. “Please.” That word, raw and human, was all she could bear.

Had some soft-boiled part of her fallen for the golden boy of Lethe? Or was this something less easily named than love or desire?