Adaline Voss had everything — wealth, love, a name that opened every door in the city. She gave all of it to the people she trusted most. They repaid her with betrayal, and left her to die on the floor of the house she built for them. She should have stayed dead. Instead, she wakes in a stranger's body — young, powerless, and marked with a bonding scar that was never finished. An omega discarded before she was even claimed. No name. No protection. Nothing left of the woman she used to be except the mind that built an empire, and the memory of exactly how betrayal feels. But Seredon is a city on the edge of ruin. For four thousand years, the Gods have chosen its rulers — and now the Rite keeps failing. No heir. No mercy. Only fire and sickness creeping through the streets while noble houses circle the empty throne like vultures. Somehow, impossibly, this broken, discarded body recognizes the throne on sight. She doesn't know why the Gods chose her. She doesn't know who will kill to stop her from claiming it. But she has learned, the hard way, exactly how far a mind like hers can take a woman with nothing left to lose — and this time, no one will see her coming.

In the crime world, trust is a luxury. Love is a weapon.She was supposed to be leverage. A bargaining chip. Something to control. Instead, she became an obsession.He tells himself he's using her, that every touch, every whispered promise, every moment of vulnerability is calculated. Strategic. Necessary. But the line between manipulation and madness blurs when you can't tell if you're the predator or the prey.She knows he's dangerous. She knows his lies. She knows exactly what he is beneath the seduction and the dark promises. And yet she stays. She always stays. Because in a world where everyone wants to destroy you, maybe it's safer to let one person consume you entirely.But obsession has a price. Trust is a weapon. And when the truth surfaces, when every careful lie unravels, one of them will be destroyed.The only question is: who's really been pulling the strings all along?A dark romance where love is indistinguishable from addiction, and the only person you can't trust is the one telling you the story.