I was nobody.The silent adopted stray. The girl who made Liora’s bed, swallowed her cruelty, and disappeared into the shadows just to survive.Until my 18th birthday.One vicious push off a deadly ravine ledge awakened the monster inside me .Veilshadow. Dark. Ancient. Unstoppable.Now the three most dangerous men in the academy can’t look away:Kael Draven, the ruthless Alpha heir who looks at me like he wants to own me. Riven Thorne, the seductive playboy hiding deadly secrets and a hunger that could destroy us both. Soren Vale, the haunted visionary who’s already seen me die a thousand times.Every time I use my power, it devours a piece of my soul.My parents were murdered to keep this bloodline buried. Someone in this academy still wants me erased. And the men I’m starting to crave might be the ones who will break me first.I was done being invisible the second my power awakened.Now the entire academy is watching. A war is coming. And I’m running out of pieces of myself to lose.*In a world ruled by power and obsession, will I rise as the Shadow Apex… or will the three men who claim they want to protect me be the ones who finally destroy me?*

They sold me to settle a debt that was never mine. My family threw me into the Velvet Eclipse. My fiancé didn't fight for me. I spent three weeks in that place being treated like something with a price tag. I did not break. Then Vincenzo Moretti walked in and bought me. He is ruthless, untouchable, and completely closed off from anything that looks like feeling. He built an empire on top of old grief and he has never once let anyone close enough to threaten it. Until me. Now I am living inside his world, breaking his rules, and carrying a secret about my past that neither of us knows yet. My ex wants me back. A dangerous rival thinks I am the key to his empire. And the family that sold me is coming. He bought me thinking I was something he could contain. He has no idea what I actually am.

Her sister betrayed her. Her family abandoned her, and the Mafia King who claimed her as his bride is the man who changed her life forever. Lena Valenti wakes up after a night she can’t remember with a secret that destroys everything, she is carrying the child of a mysterious man. Her reward for being betrayed? A forced marriage to Cassius Moretti, the ruthless Mafia King who needs her family’s alliance and the heir she carries. To him, she is a duty. To her, he is a monster. But Cassius is hiding the truth… He is the stranger from that night. The father of her child. And the man she was never supposed to fall in love with. In a world of power, revenge, and lies, Lena must decide if the Mafia King is her greatest enemy… or the only person who can save her.