I was trying to escape slavery when Oberyn, the ruthless King of the Northern Territory, caught me and dragged me into his palace. I thought being his slave would be the worst thing that could happen to me. Then I heard him screaming in agony through the wall beside my room.Women had died getting too close to him. No healer could stop the strange pain, tearing him apart, but somehow, I could. One reckless decision pulled me into his world, and now the king who should frighten me most is becoming the man I can't stay away from.But I have secrets of my own.I was born with nine lives, and I've spent years hiding the power inside me. I never knew why Grandma Mara made me promise to keep it buried until a mysterious book revealed the truth: I'm the lost heir of the ancient Cat Clan, and my family was slaughtered by a witch named Olena.I thought she was part of my past.I was wrong.Olena is still alive, and she wants my heart. With it, she can steal my lives, regain her strength, and conquer Oberyn's kingdom.Now shapeshifters are hunting me, my forgotten people are waiting for their queen, and the man I've fallen for has his own bloody history with the witch.I can run again, but there is nowhere left to hide.And when Olena finally discovers where I am, she'll come for me.This time, she won't stop until she has my heart.

Seven years ago, the Vesper Hotel burned.Eleven people died. One of them was supposed to be sixteen-year-old Iris Voss.The authorities called it an accident and closed the case.Elara Voss is twenty-six. She walked into Adrian Vale's mansion under a false identity, not to work for him, but to expose him and to find out what happened to her sister. His family helped make that case disappear.Her plan fell apart in the first five minutes because Adrian recognized her immediately.But he didn't throw her out. He hired her to investigate discrepancies in his own private archives.Then she found a photograph of Iris. Taken three months ago.Her sister didn't die that night.As Elara chased missing records, sealed rooms, and confessions buried deep in Vale Manor, she started to realize Adrian may have been hiding the truth about Iris but not out of guilt.Loving him could cost her everything.Trusting him could cost her the truth.One-Sentence Synopsisunder 160 wordsSeven years after the Vesper Hotel fire killed eleven people and left her younger sister Iris missing, Elara Voss gets past the gates of Adrian Vale's mansion. He is the powerful heir whose family helped bury the truth. She uses a fake name and takes the archivist job.In the stacks of files, she finds what shouldn't exist. The files were marked to be destroyed on the night of the fire, but it was transferred days after.Adrian looks at her and says her real name. He knows who she is.Then she finds the photograph. Iris, she was thinner, older, and alive. Five words were written on the back, in black ink: "SHE WASN'T THE ONE I WAS SUPPOSED TO SAVE."There is a sealed room at the end of the archive. Records are missing. Adrian says it himself, and he hides the truth after the fire.She feels the pull between them, but she doesn't trust him. She can't. A man who helped destroy her family doesn't get trust because he is kind to her now.Damien Cross hands her files that point to Adrian's father, Lucien. The files were useful, but every one of them put Iris at more risk and bleeds the Vale empire.Then Elara finds Iris. She was alive, hiding, with part of the missing archive tucked under her bed.Both sisters found the proof that Lucien ordered the fire. Adrian has to say it out loud, too, what he covered up.It all comes out later, and Lucien faces what he did. Damien's game is exposed, and Adrian loses control of his empire.Months later, Elara and Adrian see each other again. She still loves him. She doesn't forget what he did. But the love is still there, and forgiveness is not promised.

Nessa Calder makes a living returning the belongings of the dead to the people they left behind. She has one rule: every object deserves to find its way home. Then a broken watch arrives at her shop with a photograph of Lucien Veyr, a ruthless crime lord declared dead eleven years ago. The watch stopped at 11:17. Hidden inside it is a warning about a night someone has killed to keep secret. And when Nessa follows its trail, she discovers her late mother knew more about Lucien than she ever admitted. Lucien Veyr has spent eleven years hunting the truth behind a death that never happened. Now, the woman holding the answers has become impossible to ignore. He should keep her at a distance. She should run from him. Instead, their lives become dangerously entangled, and every secret brings them closer to a truth neither may survive. Lucien has controlled empires, enemies, and death itself. But Nessa Calder will not be so easy to control. And the more he wants her, the more dangerous loving him becomes.

Ten years ago, Lena Ashford drowned in Hollow Lake.Her body was never found.Yet Black Hollow buried her anyway.Now she's back.A mysterious letter pulls Lena to the town she barely remembers:They lied about everything.The moment she arrives in Black Hollow, people stare at her like they've seen a ghost. They swear they buried Lena Ashford ten years ago. The town's secretive Council wants her gone before she can uncover what really happened.The only person who doesn't want her to leave is Rowan Blackwood.He knew Lena when she was a little girl. He remembers the night she disappeared—and he's the only person willing to tell her that the story everyone believes is a lie.But Rowan is hiding secrets of his own.Why was Lena's death staged?Who erased her childhood?Why did an entire town agree to bury an empty coffin?And why does something beneath Hollow Lake recognize her blood?As Lena follows a trail of forbidden rituals, buried journals, erased memories, and a conspiracy spanning generations, she discovers that her disappearance was never an accident.She was never dead.She was hidden.And now that she's returned to Black Hollow, the secret they buried with her is waking up.