Fifteen generations ago, a blood pact was sealed between two powerful families. The terms were simple: the firstborn son of the Sterling-Windsor bloodline must marry a woman of the Hart-Ashford family before his thirty-fifth birthday. If he fails, he dies.Now, Seraphina Hart-Ashford is the fifteenth bride. She married a man who despises her- a man who blames her family for his mother's murder. She loved him once, in a childhood that feels like a distant dream. But that boy is gone. In his place stands a stranger wearing his face.Alexander Sterling-Windsor has spent twenty years hating the Hart-Ashfords. He married Seraphina to survive the curse. Nothing more.But the curse is not the only danger lurking within Blackwood Castle.Someone wants Alexander dead. A poison was meant for him, but Seraphina drank it instead. Now she is dying slowly. Then the killings began. The same person who placed the poison is the same person now taking lives. But who are they? And why?And then there are the premonitions. Visions that come to Seraphina in the dead of night. Whispers of a past life. A feeling that she has done this before, that history is repeating itself, and she is destined to make the same tragic choice.She will soon encounter something that will change everything. A truth hidden for centuries. A destiny she never chose. And a power that has always been within her- a power that makes her the only one who can break the curse.But breaking the curse will not come the way anyone expects.The question is not whether Seraphina will survive. The question is whether she will be the one to save this family or the one who destroys them.Who is the killer?What is the secret of the curse?And why does Seraphina feel like she has been here before?In Blackwood Castle, nothing is as it appears.

Winter Grant knows what it's like to be invisible. She's spent her life surviving—working twice as hard, expecting nothing, and trusting no one. But a rainy morning accident throws her into the orbit of a man who has everything—and a child who has no one.Raymond Sinclair is the heir to an empire built on power, secrets, and the weight of a name that demands perfection. Engaged to the right woman, groomed for the right future, he's learned that love is a weakness he can't afford.But Winter isn't part of his plan. She's not polished, not connected, not safe. She's the one person who sees past the Sinclair name—and the one person who could destroy everything he's built.When she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens his future, Winter makes a choice that changes everything. But in Raymond's world, nothing comes without a price—and some truths are more dangerous than lies.