Serena Whitmore gave up everything for the man she believed would love her forever.Hiding her identity as the only daughter of a powerful billionaire family, she stood beside Adrian Cole when he was nothing, funding his dreams and building his ideas until an ambitious nobody became a respected businessman.On the night he promised to propose, she walked in on him in bed with her best friend. Worse, she learned he had stolen her work, filed it under his own name, and was already signed to marry a wealthy heiress to secure his future.Serena didn't scream. She took the evidence and walked away without revealing who she truly was.Then she goes straight to Alexander Blackwood, the ruthless billionaire rival Adrian fears most. Alexander is cold, arrogant, and untouchable, and he has just weeks to marry or lose the family empire he has spent his life protecting. Serena wants the power to destroy the man who betrayed her. Alexander needs a wife.So they sign a contract: strict rules, no feelings.But rules are easy to write and impossible to keep. Serena begins to see the wounded man behind the icy reputation, and Alexander can't look away from the woman who refuses to be afraid of him. What began as business becomes dangerously real.Then Adrian starts digging and uncovers the secret she has guarded all along: she is the heiress whose family controls the investment empire he needs to survive. When Alexander learns the truth, he believes their love was nothing more than revenge, and everything collapses just as Adrian launches a scheme to destroy them both.Because the sweetest revenge isn't ruining the man who broke her heart. It's building a life so powerful and beautiful that she never needs him again.

Emma Carter has forty-one dollars, a mother in the oncology ward, and twelve days before the hospital stops her treatment. Then a job nobody advertised lands in her lap: personal secretary to Alexander Black, the cold, brilliant billionaire CEO of Black Meridian Group.He pays her three months in advance. He knows about her mother before she has said a word. And on her way out of his office, she sees a folder on his desk with her name on it, dated before anyone ever called her.Alexander is hiding something. Someone inside his empire is leaking secrets, and his father's death may not have been an accident. Emma was hired for a reason, and the longer she works beside him, the less she can tell whether he is using her or protecting her.Some secrets are worth keeping. Hers might be the one that brings everything down.

*Some secrets are stitched too deep to unpick.*Anya Voss was once the finest apprentice in the Imperial Seamstress's hall — until the court discovered what her needle could truly do. Now disgraced and hiding in plain sight, she has spent two years burying a gift she was taught to fear: the power to read, and rewrite, the memories sewn into another person's mind through enchanted thread.When her brother is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit, Anya has nineteen days to save him — and only one weapon left to use. Disguised under a stolen name, she infiltrates the imperial court as a seamstress to its most powerful nobles, weaving her forbidden magic into their gowns and collars to buy her brother's life one borrowed memory at a time.But every thread she pulls unravels more than she bargained for. Beneath the court's silk and ceremony lies a secret older than the empire itself — one sewn into the nobility's blood-sworn loyalty centuries ago, and guarded by a tyrant who will burn the whole realm down before he lets it come undone.The closer Anya gets to the truth, the more she risks becoming someone she no longer recognizes. Because in a court built on borrowed memories, the most dangerous thread to pull may be her own.**THE UNRAVELING CROWN***A crown of secrets. A seamstress with nothing left to lose. An empire held together by a single, fraying thread.