She can feel a lie before it leaves your mouth. He's been lying his whole career. This summit was designed to kill them both.Lyssa Crane has negotiated seventeen treaties, ended two border conflicts, and talked her way out of situations that should have gotten her killed. Words are her weapons, and she has never met a room she couldn't read.She can already feel that this one is wrong.Aldric Vane accepted the Summit of Iron invitation knowing it was a trap. Someone w...

She was hired to betray him. He knew from the start. Neither of them expected this.Seraphina Voss lost everything when her father was executed for treason he didn't commit — her title, her home, her family's name. Two years later, the empire's spymaster offers her a deal: infiltrate the Hollow Crown Palace, get close to Crown Prince Caelum Drevholt, steal evidence of his conspiracy, and everything she lost will be returned....

Kingston Daley has survived everything he was supposed to be broken by.Corporate betrayal. Romantic heartbreak. A body failing silently while he refused to ask for help. He has survived it all — and paid a steep price for every lesson.Now, emerging from a kidney transplant that changed everything, Kingston is learning — finally, stubbornly, one hard day at a time — what it actually means to let people in.He does not expect Simone Beckford.The hospital admini...

She was made to be loyal. He was made to be dangerous. Now the most powerful surveillance system in the empire is watching them fall in love — and using it to destroy them both.Seraph Voss has never broken a rule. As a Devotion Analyst for the Sanctum's network of AI Watchers, she reads emotional signatures, identifies dissidents, and keeps the empire's perfect order intact. She is very good at her job. She has never once felt anything she wasn't supposed to.Until Caelith D...

Four hundred and eleven people are about to die. The weapon is already in their hands. It cost forty thousand dollars, comes in lambskin, and it is beautiful.CIPHER is burned. Off-book. Hunted. The institution is gone, the mole has been identified, and the man who built the unit that was supposed to stop LUXE turns out to be the architect of the very operation they have been racing to prevent. PHANTOM SEAM is a bioweapon delivery system — a precision nerve compound concealed inside...

She was trained to map the conspiracy, not fall for the crown prince at the center of it.Threadwitch operative Seraphina Voss has spent fourteen months embedded in the Vaelthorn court with one objective: identify the conspiracy unraveling the empire from within. She was never supposed to care who survived it.Now the conspiracy is moving faster than anyone predicted, the man she was sent to investigate has given her his full trust and his full autho...

Kingston Daley did the hardest thing a man can do: he bet on himself — and won.Two years after walking away from the corporation that spent a decade undervaluing him, his consulting firm is thriving. The contracts are coming. The respect is earned and real. For the first time in his adult life, Kingston is building something that cannot be taken from him.Then he meets Aaliyah Grant.A community organizer who builds futures for people the city overlooked, Aaliyah is w...

The prophecy said he would die. She gave the prophecy. He's still alive, and neither of them is who they were.Vael Mohr was the Oracle Wastes' most gifted seer — until her prophecy triggered a war that killed thousands and ended her career. Stripped of her title and cast into exile, she has spent two years convinced she made a catastrophic error.She didn't. The prophecy was edited after she spoke it.Commander Soren Idl was condemned to death for refusing an order he...

Kingston Daley has done everything right.Top of his class. Years of relentless climbing. Campaigns praised in the conference room and credited to someone else in the boardroom. As one of the few Black men at his level inside a corporation that speaks the language of inclusion and practices the opposite, Kingston has become an expert at being twice as prepared and half as visible — and it has cost him more than he will ever say out loud.When he meets Brianna Cole — sharp, dr...

She was positioned, not deployed. And now she knows it.For three years, Seraphina Voss believed she was working against the empire's most dangerous faction. She filed precise reports, cultivated careful sources, and executed her mission with the pride of someone who took professional work seriously. She was wrong about all of it. Every report she sent advanced the conspiracy she thought she was fighting. Every skill she built was borrowed by the man who recruited her and used for p...

Six weeks after Paris, CIPHER thought they understood what they were fighting. They were wrong.LUXE is not one network — it is twelve. The cell CIPHER dismantled in France was a decoy, deliberately sacrificed to redirect their attention while the real operation moved four hundred and thirty billion dollars in laundered arms money across Dubai, Singapore, and Sao Paulo. CIPHER has been chasing a ghost. The ghost has been leading them exactly where it wants them.Now Sloane Vo...

She spent three years building the career she deserved. He walked through the door and got it handed to him.Sloane Mercer is twenty-eight, sharp as a blade, and six weeks from making Senior Partner at Chicago's most prestigious creative agency. She has earned every inch of it. So when Callum Reid charming, confident, and the CEO's son is appointed as her new Creative Director, she has exactly two feelings about it: fury, and the professional composure to hide it.What she do...