BLURB Ashley Vale was never meant to be his. She never imagined that her life would be reduced to a signature, to just one decision to sign a contract with a man she doesn't trust. But to save her mother from her sick bed, she has to marry Lucien Alessandro, a powerful and ruthless billionaire that doesn't use many words but can change the atmosphere in a room just by stepping in. But marriage to Lucien isn't a rescue, it's a trap. She will come to realize that behind the wealth and control lies a world she was never meant to see, a world of blood, secrets and power, but the deeper she falls into it, the more she realises something more disturbing, Lucien didn't chose her out of convenience, He choose her even before she knew who he was or even his name, the very night she saved his life. Now she is at a crossroad.. Is she fighting for her life or slowly falling for the man who wants to own it?

Blurb Nyra Veylan had killed kings, warlords, and traitors without hesitation. When the rebel faction that raised her gives her the most important mission of her life “assassinate the empire’s cruel heir”, she accepted without question. Disguised as a quiet translator of ancient war texts, she infiltrated the palace of Prince Caelan Ardyn, the man rumoured to inherit a throne built on blood. But the prince she met was not the tyrant she expected. Caelan was sharp, observant, and dangerously perceptive. Instead of cruelty, Nyra found a ruler secretly trying to dismantle the empire’s corruption from within. Their conversations became battles of wit and ideology, their rivalry slowly shifting into something neither of them planned. Yet Nyra was hiding the truth: she was sent to kill him. When Caelan discovered her identity, betrayal fractured everything between them. Banished from the palace, Nyra learnt an even darker truth, the rebellion never expected her to survive.Now hunted by both the empire and the rebels who raised her, Nyra became the spark that ignited a devastating civil war. And the only man who might save her… is the prince she was meant to assassinate.