She needed money. He needed a wife. Neither expected to fall in love. Coco Benett spent all her life working blood and sweat to keep her family a float, working endless shift day and night. When her mother’s condition seems to be getting worse, desperation forces Coco to sign a deal which forced her into the dark world of Mateo Crest. The cold, powerful and control freak, Mateo is the billionaire that is feared by everyone. His empire is built in secrets and enemies would do anything to destroy him. In order to secure a major merger and calm the storm of the raging press, he needed one thing, a fiancée, a presence who would bend to his very will and be dumped right after. Coco is the last woman he should have chosen. She's defiant, ordinary, and refuses to bow to his wealth. Yet the fire in her eyes makes her the only one who can play the role... and the only one who can unravel the man behind the mask. What begins as a contract quickly spirals into something neither can control-desire sharp enough to burn, emotions too raw to deny. But when Coco discovers the dark truth tying Mateo’s family to her own past, the fragile trust between them shatters. And when his enemies target her to get to him, she realizes falling for a man like Mateo Crest could cost her everything. In a world of billion-dollar deals and deadly enemies, love is the most dangerous game of all.

Half human. Half vampire. Fully unwanted. Nineteen-year-old Celeste Elara never belonged — not in the human slums of Philippians Creek, and definitely not in the glittering halls of the nation’s most elite nursing academy. Born to a human mother and a vampire father, she’s spent her life hiding in plain sight, clinging to her ambition like a lifeline. But when a failed network error miraculously grants her admission to Virelia Institute, everything changes. There, she crosses paths with Adrian Quest — the golden boy of the school, rich, beautiful, and betrothed to someone else. She tries to ignore the connection between them. Tries to forget how her pulse stumbles every time he looks at her like he’s seeing something he shouldn’t. But some bloodlines can’t be buried, and some fates refuse to be silenced. Beneath the surface of the academy lies a truth more sinister than she ever imagined: a hidden war, a rebellion rising, and a Council determined to erase her kind — the unmarked hybrids — for good. As betrayal tears through loyalties and the deadliest secrets claw their way into the light, Celeste must decide: Will she be the girl who survives? Or the legend who ignites a revolution? Enemies will rise. Lovers will burn. Blood will speak. And the stars will remember her name.