When her heart was struck down by a cheating boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Ella Loveless finds herself drowning her feelings at a well-known night club in the city. There, she meets a mysterious man she can’t remember in the morning other than the fact that he was deliciously seductive and the most handsome man she’d ever laid eyes on. After having her fill of heartbreak-fueled fun, she retreats to her hometown, a quaint grouping of houses and shops sitting quietly in the mountains. Out at a diner with her parents her first morning back, she’s shocked to see the very same man that had his hands all over her at the night club. Ella is warned by her parents to stay away, that is Asher King, a man who is not to be messed with. Despite their warning, she’s curious, pulled to him by something she can’t explain. Hesitant, but confident, Ella pursues the pull to Asher, and finds herself falling headfirst into a world she never knew existed.

Taylor Loudrick already killed one man.The court called it manslaughter. Taylor called it survival.After enduring years of abuse at the hands of her husband, Taylor is sentenced to five years in prison for the night she fought back—and lived. Behind bars, she learns quickly that survival comes in many forms: routine, silence, and eventually, a letter from a stranger.Adam Walls is kind, steady, and easy to talk to. Through the prison’s pen pal program, he becomes the one bright spot in Taylor’s carefully controlled world. Until the day he sends a photograph.And Taylor sees a face she thought she buried.Now, as freedom inches closer, Taylor becomes consumed by a terrifying question: is Adam just an innocent stranger—or proof that some men never really die?

Self-made billionaire Alexandra Adkins would rather bankrupt than sell her company to Callan Ashford—the ruthless heir who once tried to buy her out and never forgave her for humiliating him in public. But when hidden debt threatens to destroy everything she built, Cal offers her an impossible deal: merge their empires, play the role of his fiancée, and help him survive a scandal that could cost him control of his company. One year. One contract. One fake relationship between two people who would rather destroy each other than surrender. The only thing more dangerous than trusting her enemy… is falling for him.

In a world where power defines worth, Cyrus Morgan has none. Only a past that marked him as unwanted and a war that refuses to let him go. Kenna Grant was raised among the most powerful families in the kingdom, yet she is the one without an ability. The one they quietly cast aside, but Kenna is not as powerless as they believe. Plagued by vivid dreams of a life that isn’t hers, she discovers the boy she’s been seeing is real—and fighting on the wrong side of a war that’s tearing their world apart. As rebellion rises and truths begin to surface, Cyrus and Kenna are pulled together by something neither of them understands… and neither can escape. Because in Gentem, power isn’t always what it seems, and some connections are stronger than war.