Vyshonn grew up on the West Side of Las Vegas believing loyalty was everything. He learned early how to survive the streets, protect his people, and never bow to anybody. But behind his reputation is a secret few people know—he has the power, money, and ambition to build an empire far bigger than the neighborhood that raised him.Princess Risana was born into royalty, duty, and expectations. Her future has already been planned for her, right down to the man she is supposed to marry. Then she crosses paths with Vyshonn—a man with no royal blood, no interest in palace rules, and absolutely no intention of treating her like a fragile princess.Their attraction is immediate. Their worlds are not.As family secrets, dangerous enemies, business wars, royal politics, betrayal, and old grudges close in around them, Vyshonn and Risana must decide whether their love is strong enough to survive everything trying to tear them apart.From the streets of Las Vegas to the halls of royalty, Concrete Crown is a story about love, loyalty, power, family, ambition, and two people refusing to let the world decide who they are allowed to love.

Eighteen-year-old twins Yěhua and Icelyn thought moving into their mother Yuxi’s new husband’s mansion would be the worst part of senior year. Then they meet their new stepbrothers.Shakir is funny, secretive, and surprisingly easy to like. His older brother Konjit is another story. He’s gorgeous, arrogant, dangerously charming—and already the most popular playboy at Yěhua’s new school.Yěhua wants nothing to do with him.Then Konjit’s eyes turn crimson.One taste of blood awakens something that Yuxi has suppressed inside her daughters their entire lives. The twins discover that they were never human. They are descendants of the nearly destroyed Vaelari vampire bloodline, while Konjit and Shakir belong to the powerful Abeni bloodline.And somehow, Yěhua and Konjit have formed the impossible.A Bloodbound connection.Their parents made them family, but their blood refuses to recognize the boundary between them. Konjit’s blood may have chosen Yěhua, but she refuses to let fate choose whom she loves. If he wants her heart, he’ll have to earn it.As senior year becomes a battlefield of jealous classmates, hidden vampires, forbidden attraction, family secrets, and awakening powers, Yěhua and Icelyn discover an even darker truth: Yuxi and Larenz’s marriage may never have been an accident.Someone wanted these four teenagers beneath the same roof.Someone murdered the twins’ father to make it happen.And something ancient beneath their new home has awakened with them.Blood can create a family. Blood can start a war. But some bonds reach beyond blood.

When the company keeping Dillon, Montana alive suddenly shuts down, lifelong resident Posy Wilder watches neighbors lose their jobs, businesses struggle, and families consider leaving the only home they’ve ever known. Posy refuses to let her town disappear without a fight.Hundreds of miles away in Reno, Nevada, wealthy businessman Zaven Goodall is ready for a change. When an investment opportunity leads him to Dillon, he does more than put money into the struggling town—he packs up his life, moves to Montana, and sets out to rebuild it.But Posy doesn’t trust the handsome outsider or his ambitious plans.Their first meetings are filled with arguments, stubbornness, and an attraction neither wants to admit. Yet as Zaven becomes part of the community, Posy discovers there’s more behind his move from Reno than money. And Zaven realizes the fiery strawberry-blonde woman fighting him at every turn might be the very reason Dillon starts feeling like home.When they uncover evidence that the town’s collapse may have been deliberately engineered, former enemies must fight side by side to protect Dillon.He came to save a town. He never expected the town—or Posy Wilder—to save him.

Ju-mi Chaebom thought carrying another woman’s child would solve her problems. She never expected it to tie her forever to one of the most powerful men in Montana.Desperate for a fresh start, Ju-mi agrees to become a surrogate for billionaire CEO Cairo Moss and his wife, Lienxin. The contract is simple: carry their baby, give birth, collect her money, and walk away.But nothing about baby Zuko’s arrival goes according to plan.When Lienxin dies under mysterious circumstances and Zuko struggles without the woman who carried him, Ju-mi is pulled back into Cairo’s world—a world of unimaginable wealth, dangerous secrets, and relatives willing to do anything to control the Moss fortune.Cairo trusts almost nobody. Built like a warrior and accustomed to controlling every room he enters, he has spent his life protecting his empire and his younger brother, Loyal. But Ju-mi is different. She doesn’t fear his money, his temper, or the powerful name everyone else bows to.As Ju-mi becomes the one person Zuko refuses to let go of, the arrangement between her and Cairo begins changing into something neither of them planned.Someone wanted Lienxin gone.Someone wants control of Cairo’s heir.And buried inside the original surrogacy agreement is a clause that could change who gets the Moss fortune—and who gets to call Zuko their son.Ju-mi was supposed to walk away after giving birth.Instead, she may be the only person standing between Cairo’s family and the destruction of everything he loves.