He proposed with everything he had. She said no before she knew what he was worth. Chase Sterling spent four years pretending to be nobody, working restaurant shifts and tutoring rich kids, just to find out if the girl he loved could love him without his family's fortune attached. On graduation morning, he asked her to marry him with a ring he'd saved three months to afford. She called him a nobody and walked away. Forty five minutes later, the whole world found out Chase Sterling is heir to a forty seven billion dollar empire. And Vivian Ashford, valedictorian, golden girl, about to give the speech of her life, found out she'd just rejected the one thing she swore she'd never turn down again. He didn't forgive her. He humiliated her in front of two thousand people instead, and the video hasn't stopped playing since. Now their names are tangled together across every headline in the country, and no matter how far she runs or how cruel he gets, they cannot stay away from each other. Every scandal pulls them back into orbit. Every goodbye turns into something else. Some people fall in love. Vivian and Chase are something more dangerous. They are addicted.

I was just trying to survive my toxic family when I had the hottest one-night stand of my life. Then I found out he's my new stepbrother. And a mafia don. Demetrio DeLeon is dangerous, controlling, and completely off-limits. He's also the only man who's ever made me feel alive. Every stolen touch is forbidden. Every heated glance could destroy us both. But when his enemies come for me, I discover I'm not just some college dropout caught in the crossfire. I'm the missing daughter of the Russian Bratva's most feared pakhan. The girl whose kidnapping twenty years ago started a bloody war between two mafia empires. And now that war is back, with me at the center. Demetrio says he'll burn the world down before he lets me go. My biological brother Alexei wants to take me home to Russia. And I'm caught between two families, two worlds, and a love so consuming it might just kill us all. Some secrets are worth dying for. This one might cost me everything.

Two bloodlines. One bond that was never supposed to exist. Reed Ashford has spent his whole life becoming exactly what his father needs him to be: precise, disciplined, the perfect Alpha heir. Then a hunt goes sideways, a stranger's scent hits him like a lit match, and everything he was raised to want stops mattering. Ocean Valentine came to Hollowbrooke already promised to someone else. She knows what it means when the bond ignites for an Ashford. She knows exactly how this story is supposed to end for people like them. She falls anyway. Around them, a school full of people they trust is quietly coming apart. A best friend who feels forgotten. A boy who sees everything and says nothing. A girl clawing her way toward power she was never supposed to have. And one classmate, endlessly warm, endlessly patient, who isn't chasing revenge or power at all. He just wants to know what happens when you take a perfect life apart, one small cruelty at a time. Hollowbrooke has buried bonds like this before. Generations of them. Every family has learned how to make one disappear. This time, they're going to find out exactly what that costs. A sprawling, slow-burn shifter saga about love and loyalty.