Alina was nothing—a forgotten girl with a cursed face, abandoned by the only family she knew. When the Mafia’s coldest Alpha takes her as collateral for a debt she never owed, she expects pain. Chains. Maybe death. What she doesn’t expect is the way he burns when he touches her. The way her scent makes him lose control. Because Alina is his mate. And this beast doesn’t know how to love. Only how to claim.

When Sophia Green opens her eyes, she finds herself reborn as Vera Aldrich—the only daughter of the all-powerful Duke of Aldrich. Hunted by the cold and dangerous Fourth Prince Derek, protected by the enigmatic and gentle Ninth Prince Aiden, and forever unsettled by the golden gaze of the Third Prince Cassian, Vera must navigate a glittering world where every ballroom is a battlefield and every garden hides a secret. In this palace of masks, where power and desire entwine, Vera soon discovers that everyone wields a hidden blade—and love and betrayal are only ever a heartbeat apart.