Twenty-three-year-old Aria Morgan has spent her entire life hiding who she is. After her parents' death, she works as a librarian in the wealthy city of Silvercrest, where every day feels the same—until she accidentally meets Vivienne Laurent, the cold, brilliant CEO of the Laurent Group.Vivienne is feared throughout the business world. Elegant, distant, and impossible to read, she has built walls around her heart after a devastating betrayal years ago.Their first meeting ends in disaster.Their second meeting changes everything.As Aria is drawn into Vivienne's glamorous yet dangerous world, the attraction between them grows into something impossible to ignore. But powerful families, jealous rivals, hidden secrets, and a shocking truth about Aria's past threaten to destroy the love they've found.When choosing each other could cost them everything, will they fight for love—or lose it forever?

"In a palace where loyalty is bought with blood and love is punished by death, one king would risk his throne for the woman who was never meant to catch his eye."