The only thing more dangerous than signing a contract with your ex is breaking it.Four years ago, event planner Anya Sharma had her heart—and her wedding—shattered by her ambitious fiancé, Leo Maxwell. Now, she’s built an empire on icy professionalism, meticulously planning the city's most romantic events.Leo, a ruthless architect, needs to land the deal of a lifetime, but his playboy reputation is a liability. His solution? He needs a devoted, stable fiancée to accompany him through a month of high-society events, culminating in the prestigious Valentine’s Gala.He needs Anya.The contract is brutal: three times her salary for thirty days of public affection. The only non-negotiable clause? Absolutely no sex.Anya agrees, needing the money and secretly relishing the chance to exert control over the man who ruined her. But the tension simmering between them quickly burns through the fine print. One stolen kiss, one shared secret in his massive penthouse, and the 'No Sex' clause is violently shattered.Now, with the date of the pitch drawing near, Anya is fighting to keep her head when she's falling back into the bed of the only man who can ruin her career and her heart. But as the lines between performance and passion vanish, they must answer the most terrifying question: Is this second chance the most convincing lie, or the only truth worth fighting for?

Raven Hollow is a town where sins settle in the fog and desire moves like a shadow—slow, deliberate, impossible to escape. When Eden Ward arrives seeking quiet anonymity, she has no idea she’s stepped straight into the orbit of the one man whose darkness will call to hers.Malcolm Vale.Reclusive. Controlled. Beautifully dangerous.A man who learned long ago that vulnerability is weakness… and touch is power.He tries to stay away from her.But Eden awakens everything he’s spent years burying—the hunger, the dominance, the need to claim someone who burns as intensely as he does. And Malcolm is not a man who resists temptation for long.For Eden, Malcolm is both a warning and a promise.There’s a gravity to him—quiet, commanding, sensual—pulling her closer despite every instinct telling her to run. He reads her silence. He challenges her defenses. He makes her want things she’s never dared to name.What grows between them is not gentle.Not safe.It is raw, soul-deep chemistry—an intimate tension that coils tight every time their eyes meet, every time he steps too close, every time his voice dips low enough to unravel her.But Raven Hollow is a place built on secrets, and both of them have enough buried desire and shame to burn a house down. As their passion intensifies—hotter, deeper, more consuming—the line between surrender and ruin begins to blur.In a world where pain and pleasure walk hand-in-hand, love becomes the most dangerous seduction of all.And in the end, only one truth remains:Some flames purify.Some destroy.And some leave nothing behind…but velvet ashes