Olivia Reed has just discovered that she is the biological Kingstone heiress believed dead at birth—but when the self-made billionaire tech founder returns to New York, her powerful family rejects her, protects the daughter raised in her place, and begins fighting for the legacy, technology, and corporate influence Olivia already controls. Sebastian Ashford is a proud billionaire CEO hunting the people responsible for his brother’s death, yet the woman who may hold the missing answers is also the one person he cannot protect without risking her trust. When stolen inheritances, falsified DNA, corporate sabotage, and a ruthless family conspiracy threaten both their empires, Olivia and Sebastian enter a fake engagement that gives them power in public—and creates dangerous feelings in private. The Kingstones expect Olivia to beg for a place in their family. Instead, she refuses their money, their silence, and every attempt to decide who she is. They believe Vanessa is the daughter worth protecting. They do not know Olivia built Aurelis Technologies from nothing, controls Northstar Capital, and owns the innovation their dynasty needs to survive. Sebastian can give Olivia access, security, and enough influence to force the Kingstones to face her. But his instinct to take control whenever she is in danger threatens to make him another powerful man who believes he has the right to choose for her. Their engagement begins as a strategic lie. Their attraction is real from the start. As Olivia fights to expose the truth about her birth, recover her mother’s stolen legacy, protect her companies, and survive a conspiracy tied to Sebastian’s past, every victory reveals another betrayal. To defeat their enemies, Olivia must decide which parts of the Kingstone legacy she wants—and Sebastian must prove that loving a powerful woman means standing beside her, not taking command of her life. Her family chose the wrong daughter. Now they are about to discover exactly how powerful she has become.

When Alpha Albert Greyhaven chooses another woman as his future Luna, he expects Evelyn Dane—his secret true mate—to keep loving him in the shadows. Instead, Evelyn walks away and asks to be sent to war. Five years later, Greyhaven celebrates the return of General Vesper, the masked commander who defeated Ravencrest and won the absolute loyalty of the legions. No one is prepared for the moment Vesper shifts back into human form and reveals the woman Albert rejected. Now Albert wants his mate back. Defeated Alpha Lucian Ravencrest wants to possess the general who defeated him. And Marcus Blackcoast, the continent’s most powerful High Alpha, cannot decide whether Evelyn is a threat, an equal, or the one woman he can no longer ignore. But Evelyn did not survive war to become anyone’s property. To protect her command, her soldiers, and her freedom, she must separate destiny from love—and choose the man who respects the woman she has become.