Ava Bennett has spent her entire life fighting for stability. Working two jobs while caring for her sick mother, she doesn't have time for love. Then one disastrous charity gala changes everything. After an explosive encounter with Lucas King—the arrogant captain of the nation's most famous football club—one night of passion leaves Ava with more than memories. She's pregnant. Before she can tell him, Lucas announces his engagement to socialite Vanessa Hart on live television. Heartbroken, Ava disappears. Months later, fate drags them together again when Ava is hired as the team's new physiotherapist. Lucas doesn't recognize the woman he spent one unforgettable night with until it's too late. The attraction returns stronger than ever. So does the danger. Vanessa will do anything to keep Lucas. The media wants a scandal. A rival football club wants Lucas destroyed. And Ava is hiding the biggest secret of all. A child carrying the blood of football royalty. When the truth finally explodes across national headlines, Lucas must choose between protecting his image and claiming the woman he can't stop loving.

For centuries, servants sent to the Crimson Palace never came back. Eighteen-year-old Aria Voss doesn't have a choice. Her family is drowning in debt, and her father sells her into service to pay it off. She's told to keep her eyes down, her hands steady, and never — under any circumstances — bleed in front of the King. On her first night, she cuts her finger while serving dinner. One drop of blood hits the table. The room goes dead silent. Guards step back. Nobles stare. And at the head of the table, the immortal Vampire King — five hundred years old, and untouched by anything resembling mercy — rises slowly from his throne. His eyes lock onto her. "Everyone leave." For the first time in five centuries, the King has found a human whose blood calls to his. And every vampire in the court knows exactly what that means. She doesn't belong to herself anymore. She belongs to him. But a king's obsession comes with a price — a jealous court sharpening its knives, enemies who've waited five hundred years for a crack in his armor, and a bond that could turn her into his equal... or make her the most hunted girl alive. Aria has one choice left: run from a love that could kill her — or give in to a king who's already waited five hundred years for her.

Everyone at Blackwood High knows the rules: don't look at Damian Russo. Don't talk to Damian Russo. And for god's sake, don't get in his way. Ava Bennett didn't mean to ignore them. She really didn't- she's the scholarship student, after all. Invisible in the grand scheme of things. Doing three jobs and watching out for her brother, she doesn't have time to pay attention to the school's golden boy...let alone run after him. Until the night she walks in on the one thing she was expressly warned to avoid seeing. Blood on his hands, a corpse at his feet, and eyes that seem to say she's already dead to him if she looks away.

On the night of her 18th birthday, Lira Ashwood expected to find her mate… her destiny. Instead, she was rejected. Publicly. Brutally. Without mercy. Humiliated before the entire pack, her heart shattered—but that was only the beginning. Because moments later, the most feared and powerful Alpha in all territories—the Alpha King—stepped forward… …and claimed her. Marked by a man no one dares to look in the eye, Lira is dragged into a dangerous world of power, secrets, and forbidden desire. But the deeper she falls, the more she realizes… This wasn’t fate. It was a plan. And she might be the key to a war that could destroy them all.