Lyra Vale is eighteen, and all she wants is a normal life.A diploma. A tiny apartment in a city she's never seen. Someone who texts her goodnight. She has it all planned out, down to the order she'll do things in, because planning is how she keeps from thinking about the stars.She has stared at them since she was little, with an ache she's never been able to explain. Like they were calling her home.Then one night, they're gone.In their place, a symbol burns across the dark. A voice says her name, softly, like it has been waiting a long time. And her mother, who has smiled through every question for eighteen years, finally stops pretending.Whatever Lyra is, she was never from here.Kael could have told her. He has been close the whole time, a face at the edge of her life she never quite placed. He knows how she takes her tea. He knows the nights she can't sleep. He was told to stay away from her, and he didn't. Now every answer Lyra finds leads back to him, and so does every feeling she's trying not to have.Because someone out there has been searching for her. And she may not be the only one.Lyra can follow the life the stars chose for her, or hold on to the small, ordinary one she dreamed of. She's about to learn what it costs to love someone you were never meant to find.Some destinies are written in the stars.Others are meant to be rewritten.

Elena asked for. But everything changes when her grandfather, Alexander Sinclair, announces that she has been chosen as his Sinclair never expected to inherit the Black Empire.At twenty-five, she has built a life away from her powerful family and has no interest in fighting for a throne she neveruccessor.There's only one condition.She must survive twelve months of probation.With the Sinclair family watching her every move, a skeptical board waiting for her to fail, and powerful executives questioning her abilities, Elena is thrown into a world where one wrong decision could cost her the empire.Then there's Adrian Vale.At thirty-four, Adrian is a ruthless billionaire and the powerful CEO of Vale International. Cold, calculating, and impossible to intimidate, he is also one of the few people whose opinion could influence Elena's future.From their first meeting, they clash.He thinks she's inexperienced.She thinks he's arrogant.But as Elena digs deeper into the Black Empire, she discovers that the problems surrounding the company are far more complicated than anyone told her. Someone is hiding information. Someone wants her to fail. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous the game becomes.As business battles turn personal and an unexpected attraction grows between Elena and Adrian, she must decide who she can trust.Because the Black Empire isn't simply waiting to see whether she can inherit it.Someone is determined to make sure she never does.She was born an heiress.Now she has twelve months to prove she deserves the empire.

Lena Hart has spent years living under the shadow of her father's disgrace.Her father was once a respected financial analyst at Blackwood International—until he was accused of stealing millions from the company. His reputation was destroyed, and his mysterious death left Lena with nothing but unanswered questions.Now, years later, Lena gets the opportunity of a lifetime: a position inside the very empire that ruined her family.But her new boss isn't the ordinary CEO she expected.Alexander Blackwood is powerful, ruthless, and untouchable. The billionaire CEO has built an empire everyone envies, but behind his polished image are secrets he refuses to reveal.And he knows far too much about Lena's father.Alexander didn't hire Lena by accident.He believes someone inside his empire knows the truth about Daniel Hart's downfall—and he needs Lena to help uncover it.But the deeper Lena digs, the more dangerous things become.Someone is watching her.Someone doesn't want the past uncovered.And the closer Lena gets to Alexander, the harder it becomes to tell whether he is the only man she can trust—or the one person she should fear most.Because behind Alexander Blackwood's empire lies a secret powerful enough to destroy everything he has built.And falling for the man at its center may cost Lena far more than her heart.