HIGH STAKES: PLAYING FOR THE KING

They destroyed her career in a single night. Now she's rebuilding her life in the bed of the one man dangerous enough to end it all over again.

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Anastasia Blues had nothing left to lose when she stole a keycard to a stranger's suite, and the man waiting inside became the secret she couldn't outrun. Months later, blacklisted no more but recruited into a royal power struggle as her best friend's strategist, she finds Dominic Blackwood standing at the center of the very game she's been hired to win.

He is the one calculation she cannot make, the one risk she cannot control, and the one man who might cost her everything a second time.

As Damien's claim to the throne draws sharper enemies and closer scrutiny, Anastasia's careful reinvention depends on keeping Dominic exactly where he cannot touch her, a boundary that grows harder to defend with every private hour they steal from a life built on public appearances.

Somewhere between the ballrooms and the boardrooms, wanting him stops feeling like a weakness she can manage and starts feeling like the one move guaranteed to ruin her.

Crowns, betrayals, and a desire neither of them can afford collide in a world where losing means more than just a broken heart.

18+ SNLV