In a world where marriages are negotiated and love is a liability, Sera Everly was promised to a man she could never love, while her heart belonged to a man she should never love. Raised alongside him, she has always been hopelessly devoted to the one person she cannot have. Evan Sterling, her sworn brother, and the heir to a rival empire. Their families were two of the biggest powers in Ardelle City, on friendly terms but competitors. When duty demands they each marry for familial business ties, any lingering attachment between them should have died quietly. It didn’t. While she endures a cold, loveless union, he finds himself torn between the wife he chose to protect and the woman he was never meant to desire. What begins as stolen moments and unspoken longing spirals into something far more dangerous—an obsession neither of them can control, nor survive without. But in a world built on legacy, betrayal has consequences.To choose each other means unraveling alliances, destroying families, and risking everything they were raised to protect. And as secrets surface and loyalties fracture, they must decide: Was their love always inevitable… or was it doomed from the very beginning?

Donovan, an Alpha haunted by missing memories, is drawn back into the fractured realm of Zollorune as his past slowly resurfaces. When visions of Scarsmond Island return, he uncovers a world spiraling into violence, where magical creatures are being hunted and erased by a feared mastermind. Yet when Donovan finally faces the mastermind — something just feels off.His search for answers leads him through Unseen Hollow, cursed relics, and ancient forces manipulating fate from the shadows. As the truth behind the mastermind emerges, Donovan is forced to confront an enemy far greater than a single tyrant — one that thrives on the collapse of the entire realm.