Prodigal Princess: The Price of PowerUpdated at Apr 25, 2026, 08:19
She had three hundred and forty-two francs in her bank account when her phone rang.The job was simple. Translate a meeting. Get paid. Go home.That was what she told herself when she walked into a glass tower forty-two floors above Zurich and sat across from the most dangerous family in Europe.That was before Lorenzo König looked at her like he already knew her name.Lena Vasik is twenty-three years old and has survived everything life has thrown at her; foster care, poverty, complete and utter solitude, by being invisible. Watching. Waiting. Never belonging to anyone or anything.She is good at surviving.She is about to discover that surviving and living are completely different things.When a last-minute translation job places her inside the König empire; a world of brutalist estates, private jets, and power so deeply embedded it doesn't need to announce itself. She signs a contract she cannot afford to break.What she doesn't know is that the contract was never accidental.Neither was she.Lorenzo König is twenty-nine years old and built from controlled silence. He inherited an empire before he was ready and has been running it with cold precision ever since. He doesn't joke. He doesn't hesitate. He doesn't lose control.Until her.He watches her the way he watches everything important; like he is taking her apart quietly and storing the pieces. But something about Lena is different from everything else he has ever catalogued. Something he cannot file away. Something that is beginning to crack the one thing he has never lost.His control.Then Viktor appears.Forty-one years old. Patient. Warm in ways that reach places Lena has never let anyone reach. He knew her father. He remembers her mother's favourite flower. He looks at her like she is something he has been waiting for his entire life.He is the man who understands her ruins.Lukas is the man who sets her on fire.And somewhere between the two of them, in the silences of a Geneva dinner table, in the corridors of an estate that holds more secrets than she has been told, in the weight of an envelope addressed to a name she didn't know was hers. Lena begins to understand the truth.She was never a translator.She was never nobody.She is the daughter of a man whose name still moves through powerful rooms like a ghost. A man whose death was arranged by someone who has been standing close to her since the beginning, wearing a dead man's name and a stolen watch and a smile that costs nothing to give.The world she walked into is the world she was born for.And the two men fighting over her loyalty; one with obsession burning beneath his silence, one with patience sharp enough to cut, are both keeping secrets that will change everything she thinks she knows.This is not a story about a woman who gets rescued.This is a story about a woman who learns that the cage she has been sitting in was never locked.She was just waiting until she understood the keys.Dark. Layered. Impossible to put down.180 chapters of psychological tension, slow-burn romance, and a love triangle that will make you question everything, and reread it all again.