In Luminaria, power is everything—and mercy is a crime.Born from a forbidden union and declared powerless at birth, Shayla should have died the day her parents were executed. Instead, she is sold into slavery and dragged into the Heartless Tower, a palace where cruelty rules and the weak are erased without a trace.Surrounded by ruthless royals, deadly trials, and twisted games of power, Shayla learns that survival demands more than obedience. As secrets awaken within her and danger closes in, she must choose: remain invisible and live, or rise and become a threat.In a world that destroyed her first, how far will she go to take her power back—without losing herself?

In Luminaria, power is law—and mercy is a myth.Born of a forbidden union between a human and a Luminarian, Shayla was cursed from birth. Powerless. Weak. Illegal.In a world where such children are sold like cattle and their parents executed, her fate was sealed the moment she took her first breath.Raised in the cold cages of The Dark Room, Shayla survives on silence, obedience, and hope she’s not allowed to have. Until the night she’s placed on the auction floor—where two royal families battle with blood-soaked wealth to own her.The ruthless Millions, rulers of the Grand Palace.The fallen Spectres, stripped of power every midnight.Just when the Spectres finally win her bid, fate turns cruel.A being colder than ice.More powerful than royalty.Feared even by monsters.Ryker Millions—the bastard prince, the demigod of the palace, the heartless one—steps forward and names a price no one dares challenge.150 billion.Sold not as a slave… but as something far more dangerous.Pulled into a palace where love is a weakness and survival demands cruelty, Shayla finds herself bound to a man whose heart is said to be made of stone—and whose darkness may either destroy her… or remake her.In a world of ice, blood, and betrayal,what happens when the most feared devil chooses a powerless girl?