He knew my name before I said it. He knew my mother's garden, her blue door, the key under the third stepping stone. He had kept me safe for three years from a world I didn't know existed — and he had done it without ever letting me see him. I came to Voss Capital Group to save my career. I had forty-seven slides, forty minutes, and everything riding on a meeting I never should have gotten. What I didn't have was any idea that Damien Voss — Manhattan's most feared billionaire, a man who once made a competitor cry at his own press conference — had been waiting for me specifically. That the contract on his desk had my name on it from three years ago. That the land beneath my childhood home was registered in his name. That when his eyes flashed gold across that conference table, it wasn't a trick of the light. He says I am his mate. He says there are people hunting me because of what I mean to him. He says he has spent three years watching me live my life from ninety-four floors away, out of something he calls restraint and I am beginning to suspect is the most dangerous kind of love. I have two choices. Run — and discover exactly what's in the dark he's been keeping me safe from. Or stay — and discover exactly what kind of woman survives being claimed by the most powerful alpha alive. I should have run. God help me — I stayed.

She signed a one-year marriage contract with the most dangerous billionaire in New York to save her family — only to discover he orchestrated their ruin thirteen years ago… and the only way to survive him is to make the monster fall so deeply in love with her that he’s willing to burn his entire empire to the ground.

"Sign the contract, and your brother lives. Refuse, and you can spend the rest of the night picking out a casket." Evelyn Chen is an architecture graduate drowning in a debt that isn't hers. To save her brother from the same "accident" that claimed her parents’ lives, she walks into the lion’s den: the office of Alexander Thorne.Alex is a man of glass and steel—cold, calculating, and worth billions. He offers Evie a gilded cage: a one-year marriage contract, ten million dollars, and absolute protection. The rules are simple: no questions asked, and no emotional attachment.But as the penthouse doors lock behind her, Evie realizes she hasn't just sold her name—she’s walked into a trap three years in the making. Alex isn't just her husband; he’s a man haunted by a tragic past who has been watching her from the shadows, obsessed with her strength.As secrets regarding her parents’ death begin to surface, Evie must navigate a world of vicious high-society politics and Alex’s dark, possessive need for control. In a house built on lies and obsession, she has to decide: is Alexander Thorne the devil who destroyed her life, or the only man capable of burning the world down to save her?

They called me wolf-less. Weak. Worthless. In the Bloodstone Pack, that’s as good as a death sentence—except mine has been slow, drawn out in whispers, cold stares, and the sharp edges of my family’s contempt. My mate, the one the Moon Goddess chose for me, humiliated me in front of the entire pack before turning his back. So I did what no one expected. I left. One reckless night in a bar far from home, I met a stranger with eyes like winter storms. I should have walked away, but pain has a way of making you reckless—and desire has a way of making you forget. By morning, I was gone, certain I’d never see him again. But fate is cruel and relentless. The stranger was no ordinary wolf—he was the Lycan King, and I was his mate. Now he’s hunting me, not just for the bond that ties us, but for something more… because something woke inside me that night. My wolf. My power. And possibly, our child. The world I ran from is nothing compared to the enemies closing in now—family who’d rather see me broken, a sister who thrives on my misery, and a rival king who would burn kingdoms to claim what’s his. The closer Jake gets, the more I wonder if the greatest danger I face isn’t the people hunting me… but the darkness I’ve carried all along.