Ethan Vale has spent three years being treated as a useless outsider by his wife’s powerful family. He has endured their insults, their control and the quiet destruction of his marriage because he believed there was nothing he could do to change his life.Then, three seconds before his wife signs their divorce papers, Ethan is shot.As he lies bleeding, a mysterious System awakens and gives him a single command:Survive until sunrise.Suddenly, the family that discarded Ethan is hunting him. The people around him are hiding dangerous secrets, and the System keeps revealing clues that suggest Ethan is far more important than anyone ever allowed him to believe.With enemies closing in and his strength running out, Ethan must rely on his instincts, his knowledge of the Sterling household and abilities he barely understands. Every choice brings him closer to the truth, but every new power comes with a price.The man they humiliated is no longer willing to remain powerless.Before sunrise, Ethan will either uncover the secret behind his past or become another victim of the family that tried to erase him.

Elena Hart never expected one disastrous evening to change her life. After accidentally humiliating Manhattan’s most powerful billionaire, Adrian Blackwood, she thinks her luck has finally run out. Instead, he offers her two million dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for six months. The deal is simple: attend glamorous events, charm his wealthy family, and never fall in love. With bills piling up and her younger sister depending on her, Elena accepts. What she doesn’t know is that Adrian’s fortune hides a dangerous secret. Adrian Blackwood is a werewolf, bound by an ancient curse that threatens to destroy him. His world is ruled by power, bloodlines, and secrets, and he has spent years keeping the beast within him under control. But something extraordinary happens when Elena touches him. For reasons neither understands, she can silence the darkness inside him. As their pretend relationship becomes tangled in genuine feelings, Elena finds herself drawn into a world she never knew existed. Then a shocking revelation connects her mother’s mysterious death to the Blackwood family’s curse, making Elena question whether Adrian chose her by chance or whether fate has been pulling them together all along. With a jealous former fiancée determined to expose the truth, a powerful family hiding its own agenda, and a curse that could cost Elena everything, their arrangement becomes more dangerous with every passing day. Adrian thought Elena would be nothing more than a temporary solution to his problems. He never expected her to become the one person he could not control, the woman who could save him, or the greatest risk he had ever taken. He offered her two million dollars to play the perfect girlfriend. He never planned to fall for her. And neither of them knows what their love will awaken.