Three months ago, Elara buried her boyfriend, Liam, in a closed casket. Today, her phone lit up with a text from his incinerated number: “Don’t trust my brother.” The problem? She is already trapped in his brother’s web. Julian is the cold, terrifying heir to a ruthless syndicate empire, and since the funeral, he has wrapped Elara in a suffocating, possessive cage of protection. He tracks her movements, controls her environment, and watches her with an intense, obsidian gaze that blurs the line between warden and lover. Every survival instinct screams at Elara to run, yet the dark, electric pull she feels toward Julian is becoming impossible to resist. But when physical traces of Liam begin appearing in the shadows of the family estate, Elara’s grief shatters into visceral paranoia. Is Julian a murderer keeping her close to hide his sins? Is Liam a ghost, or a mastermind playing a sick psychological game from beyond the grave? Or is the truth deadlier than she could ever imagine? Caught between a phantom who demands her loyalty and a monster who demands her absolute surrender, Elara must stop playing the fragile victim. To survive the syndicate's rotting legacy and the lethal devotion of two dangerous men, she will have to weaponize her own trauma. Elara isn't just going to uncover the truth—she is going to take the throne, and she will decide exactly which brother burns and which one kneels.

Every portrait in the Blackwood estate showed two brothers.Everyone talked about one.Nobody mentioned the other.Until Sofia discovered the man they claimed was dead had been watching her all along.Brilliant interior architect Sofia lives a perfectly ordered life, anchored by her predictable fiancé, Adrian Blackwood. But when a sudden panic forces Adrian to bring her to his family’s Gothic estate, Sofia’s structured world fractures. The Blackwoods are a dynasty built on absolute control, staggering wealth, and lethal silence. And their darkest secret is Lucien.Officially, Adrian’s older brother died years ago. Unofficially, his name is a psychological tripwire that terrifies the entire billionaire family. When Sofia discovers fresh scratches on a locked door and a hidden photograph proving Lucien is alive, she realizes she has not married into wealth. She has stepped into a warzone.Refusing to be a passive pawn, Sofia investigates the sprawling shadows, only to come face to face with the ghost himself. Lucien is raw, predatory, and morally fractured. He is a man who engineered his own erasure to orchestrate a massive, slow burning revenge.But as manipulative notes arrive and lethal family truths surface, Sofia makes a devastating discovery: her engagement to Adrian was not a coincidence. Someone spent years pushing her into the Blackwood empire.Caught between a fiancé who is hiding terrifying truths to survive and a dangerous, exiled brother whose obsession with her might be the only thing keeping her alive, Sofia must fight. She will survive this war.

An impossible bond. A dangerous obsession. A kingdom on the brink of war.To the Northern Pack Alliance, King Arthur is an untouchable sovereign—cold, merciless, and dead to the world. He rules with calculating restraint, utterly immune to temptation. Until his eyes lock onto Aurora.She is his daughter’s best friend. She is forbidden. And she is the only woman alive who can bring the ruthless Lycan King to his knees.When an accidental touch sparks a violent, undeniable mating bond, their world implodes. The electric heat between them is catastrophic, a dark and addictive pull that defies every law of the pack. But the timing couldn't be more lethal. To secure a fragile peace, Aurora has just been promised to Alpha Hector, a brutal traditionalist who claims what is his by force.Caught between loyalty to her best friend and a suffocating, psychological dependency on a man she shouldn't desire, Aurora refuses to be a passive pawn. She pushes back, testing Arthur’s legendary restraint until the icy facade cracks, unleashing a possessive predator who will stop at nothing to claim her.As secret threats loom, betrayal bleeds through the palace halls, and the scent of a forbidden affair sparks rumors of a pack civil war, Arthur is forced to choose between his crown and his mate.He will burn the world to the ground before he lets another man touch her.