"On the ice, we're enemies. In here? You're mine. Only I get to see you like this. And I'll never let anyone else have you."He dares to provoke him. He dares to claim him.Elian Cole is Northwood's golden boy. Perfect GPA, perfect captain, the only brain that can outplay Ashford. Jace Rhys is Ashford's ice king. Cold, rich, feared - the mafia heir who was taught that losing means someone else pays.They've been rivals for four years. They are competing for everything— the State Business Excellence Award, the best stats, legacies, you name it.Then the National Elite Prospects Camp happens. The golden ticket to the draft. 16 players. And this year, that includes them. Roommates, linemates, teammates. And that three weeks is all it takes for the ice to crack. The dynamic changes and it's absolutely lethal.They call each other the problem—until they realize they're better together than apart. But now the real problem is, going back to being rival captains means going back to pretending. What started as provocation in Colorado doesn't stay in Colorado when the season starts again.

Ever been handed a life you didn't ask for, with no return policy or escape route? That's the best way to sum up Kirin Theerakul's life. The young artist and model returns to Bangkok to find his family on their knees and the Don's gun to his father's head. To buy his family three months to prove innocence, he becomes collateral in the Vongsawat estate, a house with no mirrors and no portraits. In one month, he will be engaged to the Don's heir, Rakkhan Vongsawat. In three months, he will marry him. Ever been forced back into a past you thought you buried? It's the same book but what lies beneath the cover isn't what you thought was already written? That's the life Pim Sathaworn is living in now. Now that khemrat Vongpaisarn, his childhood love turned ex-fiancé, is back, the young idol and model is forced back into his orbit and has to confront his reality a third time after being abandoned twice by the one man he thought was finally his safe place. When the Theerakuls' death sentence is revoked, the Council starts to crack. Verdicts forge themselves. The under-families start whispering that the Crown is too old to hold. When the pieces begin to fall in place, The Four discover that beneath the council lies more blood than they'd ever imagined.