I married for a roof, not love.At 23, after my mother died and rent hit $800, I married my campus boyfriend Silas Vane and moved into his uncle's 12-room mansion in Willow Row.One room. One bed. No lock.Rule of the house: Newlyweds share one room for a year to "learn each other." No locks. No hiding.At 11 PM every night, Silas goes to the North Wing to "study" with his beautiful cousin Lyra. He comes back at 1 AM smelling like her lily perfume.And Caelum Vane — his 31-year-old uncle who owns the mansion — starts fixing things in our room when Silas is gone. The light. The chair. He watches me cook. He offers me the only room in the house WITH a lock.West Wing. His wing.Until one midnight in the kitchen, I see Silas between Lyra's legs. And Caelum sees me seeing them.Now our mansion with 12 rooms has no room where anyone sleeps alone — and my husband's uncle is the only man who looks at me like I'm not just a useful wife who cooks.Forbidden. Slow-burn. Mansion romance.

At my father's burial, billionaire Damian Croft offered me $90,000 to be his dead wife.My father was killed by his freight trucks. His late wife Elara looks exactly like me. Same scar. Same eyes.One year contract: Live in his mansion Blackwood Manor as Elara, to comfort his dying mother who doesn't know Elara is dead.Three rules: Never enter the locked third floor. Never ask how Elara died. Never wear red.I broke Rule One on night one. I heard piano from the locked studio. Inside I found a fresh painting of ME at my father's grave — painted before I ever arrived — and a diary: "If you are reading this, my husband will kill me tonight."Mrs. Finch slipped me a note: "Elara is alive. Meet at Havenport bus station 4pm."Elara is alive, with a baby who has Damian's eyes. She faked her death and stole $2,000,000.Now Damian must choose: his dead wife who came back, or the fake wife who is carrying his future.

For 300 years, the Kingdom of Eldoran has taught one lie: Witches are extinct.They burned their books. They shattered their temples. They chained their floating cities to the ground and told children that magic died with the last witch.They forgot Nyxara.She was seven when they came for her. Silver eyes glowing in the dark, hands dripping with magic no one had seen in centuries — the magic of memory itself. The High Council called her an abomination. Her own mother called her cursed. They left her in the Forgotten Ruins, where the chained islands float and the air itself whispers forgotten spells, expecting the void to swallow her.It didn't.The shadows raised her. The ruins taught her. The ancient chains that bind the sky recognized her blood.For ten years, Nyxara survived alone, learning a magic that doesn't just cast — it remembers. Every spell ever cast in Eldoran lives inside her now. Every betrayal. Every lie. Every witch they murdered.Then on her 17th birthday, the sky cracked open.Two dragons fell.Nox — the Void Dragon, scales made of living night sky, eyes holding dead galaxies. He was there the night Eldoran fell. He says Nyxara is the one who destroyed it. He has come to kill her before she remembers what she did.Iris — the Chromatic Dragon, scales shifting with every color of magic, breath made of pure creation. He says Nyxara is the only one who can save Eldoran. He has come to bond with her, to become her familiar, her protector... her mate.Both are lying.Now the Eldoran Academy of Magic — the same Academy that condemned her as a child — is sending invitations. A new darkness is rising from the chained islands. Students are losing their magic. The floating ruins are falling. And the only person who can read the ancient runes is the forgotten witch.Nyxara must return to the people who left her to die. She must walk the halls as a student, hide her silver eyes, and uncover why the Kingdom erased her kind.But the more she remembers, the more dangerous she becomes. Because Nyxara isn't just a witch. She is the memory Eldoran tried to erase. And the spell she cast at seven years old — the one that made the entire world forget her — is starting to break.If it breaks completely, everyone will remember.Everyone will remember what she is.And what she did to save them.This book is for you if you love:✓ Overpowered, vengeful female lead who goes from weak to godlike✓ Academy setting with secrets, bullies, and hidden power reveals✓ Two possessive, powerful dragon shifters obsessed with one girl✓ Found family, ancient magic, and a world where ruins float in the sky✓ Slow-burn romance, heart-wrenching betrayal, and revenge that feels GOOD.