When love and blood intertwine, darkness and desire collide.Seraphina Anderson’s life has been marked by tragedy. Her father was killed before her birth, her mother died after, and her only brother disappeared mysteriously. Raised by a distant aunt, she survives on her own, becoming a brilliant medical doctor, while searching tirelessly for her missing sibling.Meanwhile, Haynes Van Doren, a billionaire with a dark mafia past, has loved Seraphina since childhood. A former mafia heir, he is feared, ruthless, and emotionally closed off, yet has protected Seraphina from afar, funding her education, ensuring her career success, and eliminating every danger that could touch her life.Their lives intertwine when Adeline Everleigh, Seraphina’s best friend, born into wealth and power is bound by her parents’ demands to marry Haynes to secure her inheritance. When Seraphina reluctantly impersonates her, a dangerous game of deception, obsession, and forbidden desire begins.As mafia secrets are revealed, past sins resurface, and hearts are tested, a marriage of convenience will ignite passion, jealousy, and bloodshed. In the end, will love tempered by survival bring redemption?

When life burned her world to ashes, she chose to bloom.After years of abuse and loss, Kiera Sinclair never imagined freedom would come disguised as another prison; a forced marriage to Miami’s cold and calculating billionaire, Ryan Montenegro, in place of her runaway cousin.To Ryan, the marriage is nothing more than a business transaction born of deceit. To Kiera, it’s a chance at survival. But as secrets unravel and walls begin to fall, their hatred slowly gives way to something far more dangerous; love.Yet love has enemies.Ryan’s ex-lover, the stunning and unstable model Luciana Salvador, refuses to be replaced. Behind her flawless beauty lies a mind darkened by obsession, revenge, and a tragic past tied to the Montenegro family’s buried sins. Her descent into madness will shatter every truth they thought they knew.Caught between betrayal, heartbreak, and long-hidden crimes, Kiera must confront her past and decide whether to forgive or to destroy. Because in a world built on lies, even love can be deadly.A Rose Among Ashes is a haunting, emotional contemporary romance where passion meets pain, and redemption blooms from ruin.

STORY IDEA: “A deal without love. A bond they can’t escape.” Lyra Flynn, a fiercely independent fashion designer whose strength was forged through loss, betrayal, and the relentless fight to protect her sick father’s legacy meets Ethan Wilder, a cold, calculating billionaire heir with a guarded heart, scarred by betrayal, and driven by a ⁶ruthless determination to protect his family’s empire at any cost. When fate throws them together, a dangerous proposal will force them into a marriage bound by rules, secrets, and one unbreakable condition — neither must fall in love. But in a world where trust is a luxury and hearts are weapons, some promises are meant to be broken.