Adrian Vale has everything a man could want wealth, power, influence, intelligence, and a future waiting for him as the head of one of America's most powerful corporate empires. But behind his perfect life is a man who has forgotten how to live without control.Abandoned as a child and taken in by billionaire businessman Richard Vale, Adrian has spent twenty-two years proving that he deserves the family and future he was given. Now, at thirty-two, he is finally about to become CEO of Vale Meridian Group.Adrian has one rule: never let emotions interfere with ambition.Then Elena Marlowe walks into his life.Elena is an investigative journalist determined to expose the secrets hidden behind Vale Meridian's polished reputation. She is intelligent, fearless, stubborn, and completely unimpressed by Adrian's wealth or authority. To Adrian, she is an irritating threat to everything he has worked to protect.To Elena, he is exactly the kind of powerful man she has spent her career investigating.Their first encounters are filled with suspicion, arguments, and undeniable attraction. Neither wants to admit what is happening between them, but the more they fight, the harder it becomes to stay apart.Then Elena discovers something buried inside Vale Meridian's history something connected to Adrian's childhood.The truth could destroy the family that Adrian has spent his entire life protecting.As Elena gets closer to the truth, someone begins trying to stop her. Adrian is forced to choose between protecting his family's empire and protecting the woman who has become the one person he cannot afford to lose.But the deeper Adrian digs into his past, the more disturbing the truth becomes.What if the family that saved him as a child was hiding the real reason they brought him home?What if the life Adrian spent twenty-two years protecting was built on a lie?And what happens when the man who never needed love finally discovers that love may be the only thing worth losing everything for?

Book One of the Forbidden Kingdoms series. A hundred years ago, the War of Red Snow nearly wiped both crowns from the map. The Bloodmoon Accord ended it, a fragile truce that made one law absolute: wolf and vampire do not touch, do not bond, do not love. On either side of the border, the penalty is death.Princess Seraphine Valorwyn was never meant to be a diplomat. She was meant to be a soldier, a future queen, a woman who solves problems with her claws. But when something is slaughtering wolf and vampire patrols alike along the border something neither kingdom can name she volunteers to do what no Valorwyn has done in a century: walk into the enemy's court and live there, unarmed, for three moons, as a hostage to an uneasy peace.Prince Dorian Vaelthorn was raised to distrust everything that howls. Heir to a throne built on old blood and older grudges, he has exactly one job where the wolf princess is concerned: keep her alive, keep her contained, and send her home untouched when her three moons are up. He does not expect her to be funny. He does not expect her to be brave. He does not expect, on the first night in his mother's palace, to already be counting the days until she leaves and dreading them.As a new enemy called the Hollow Order stalks both kingdoms from the shadows, Sera and Dorian are forced closer together than law, family, or a hundred years of hatred should ever allow. Every stolen conversation is a risk. Every unguarded moment is a confession neither of them can afford to make. And the closer they get, the clearer it becomes that the real danger was never the border between their kingdoms it's what's growing, inevitable and forbidden, in the space between them.Two crowns that have hated each other since before either of them was born. Two hearts that were never supposed to have a choice. One bond that could either end the oldest war in the world or finally, completely burn it down.Some accords are made to be broken. ⚠️ Mature content this is a steamy, +18 forbidden romance with intense romantic and sensual scenes, violence, and political intrigue. Not intended for readers under 18.