THE EVIDENCE BETWEEN USHe built his empire on secrets. She was trained to uncover them. Falling for him was never part of the investigation.In Vespa, power has two faces: the one the world admires and the one it fears.Adrian Bellandi is a respected businessman with an empire that reaches into the highest circles of wealth and politics. He is calculating, influential, and accustomed to getting what he wants. What the public doesn't know is that behind his polished reputation lies a criminal empire built on loyalty, fear, and bloodshed.Mara Vescari has spent years learning how to recognize a lie. As an agent of the National Intelligence Service, she is assigned to investigate suspicious shipments passing through Vesper Port. It should be a routine investigation—until a disputed financial record bears a signature connected to her family's past.The deeper Mara digs, the more the evidence points toward powerful people who cannot afford to have their secrets exposed. Business rivals are fighting for influence, a presidential election is turning old alliances into dangerous weapons, and someone inside the intelligence service is determined to keep the truth buried.Then there is Adrian Bellandi.He is everything Mara should distrust. He knows more than he admits, controls more than anyone suspects, and seems to recognize something in her that she has worked hard to conceal. Their attraction grows despite the lies between them, drawing Mara closer to the very world she was sent to investigate.But Adrian isn't the only man hiding behind a respectable name. Matteo Rivera, his business rival and leader of a rival criminal organization, has his own plans for Vespa—and a long-standing grievance that has turned revenge into an obsession.As old records resurface and carefully constructed loyalties begin to fracture, Mara discovers that the truth about her family's past is far more complicated than she ever imagined. The people she loves have secrets of their own, and the enemy she is chasing may not be the only person capable of destroying her.In a world where evidence can disappear, witnesses can be silenced, and loyalty can be bought, the truth comes at a price.Mara was trained to follow the evidence. But what happens when the evidence leads her to the man she cannot bring herself to hate—and loving him could cost her everything?

THE CURSED ALPHA'S REJECTED BRIDEKing Lucas of Blackthorne has spent years hiding a dangerous secret.Every full moon, an ancient curse takes control of his wolf, forcing the most powerful Alpha in the kingdom into chains beneath his own palace. Feared by his people and determined to keep everyone at a distance, Lucas has no intention of taking a mate—until the Council forces him into an arranged marriage with the daughter of a powerful Alpha.Isabel of Silverwood has never been what her people expected her to be. Born without a wolf, she has spent her entire life being treated as weak and incomplete. But Isabel refuses to let anyone decide her worth. She trains, fights, and learns to survive without the power every werewolf is supposed to possess.When she arrives in Blackthorne, Lucas wants only one thing: for her to leave.But the Council will not allow the alliance to be broken, and Isabel soon finds herself trapped in a palace where she is neither welcomed as a bride nor accepted as a future Luna.Then the rogue attacks begin.What first appears to be a threat against the kingdom soon reveals something far more dangerous. Ancient magic is stirring, witches are hiding secrets, and an old prophecy surrounding the First Alpha may be connected to Lucas's curse—and to Isabel herself.As enemies close in and the kingdom begins to fracture, Lucas must decide whether pushing Isabel away will truly protect her.Because the woman he was determined to reject may be the one person capable of changing the fate of Blackthorne forever.