No, no, no... don’t tell me she’s my sister. She can't be.”How can the girl I’ve touched, the woman I’ve kissed and held in the dark, be my step sister? How can she be the child born out of wedlock from my father’s bitter, cheating life?Kelvin Sterling is the undisputed king of Veridia. Ruthless, cold, and calculated, he rules the Sterling empire with an iron fist. But his world is tilted on its axis when he meets Aurora Dacksoline, a girl with the mind of a genius and the eyes of a ghost. She was supposed to be just another servant at the Imperial Grand Hotel, a temporary distraction in a grey vest.But when Aurora is reduced to nothing in his presence the stinging feeling of pure attraction and ownership starts to cripple in.As Aurora is pulled deeper into the sterling web, a dark secret surfaces. Chaos begins as love and attraction slowly turns to hatred filled with past anger. Now she is caught between her growing desire for the man who saved her and the terrifying truth of her bloodline. In a city where image is everything, their attraction is a death sentence.