Vhoraan is where ships go to die. Kess Dray intends to be the exception.When a smuggling run ends in disaster, thirty-three-year-old Kess crashes beyond the quarantine line on a death-world no sane pilot would approach. Her ship is ruined. Her beacon is failing. And the bioluminescent jungle surrounding her is beautiful in exactly the way poisonous things are beautiful.Then she realizes something is hunting her.Ythera Vahn-Ke'rath is no mindless predator. Nearly sev...

"You're offering to erase everything I owe."Vale Ashworth should walk away.She knows that the moment Countess Reyes slides the contract across her desk.At twenty-six, Vale is barely holding her life together. Her mother's medical bills keep climbing. Collections calls follow her everywhere. At work, exhaustion is starting to cost her the one thing she cannot afford to lose: her career.Then the most powerful woman in the company offers her a way out.C...

"Tell me you're not here for him."Paloma Reyes smiles like she's already won. Celeste Arnaud reaches for the weapon hidden beneath her immaculate jacket.Of course she is.Celeste has built her life around precision. As one of the Meridian Compact's most reliable cleaners, she survives by controlling every variable, leaving nothing behind, and never giving anyone enough of herself to use against her.Then Paloma keeps getting in the way.Paloma Reyes is ...

Camille Roth never gives anyone leverage. Then Tamsin Reyes walks into her office.At forty-seven, Camille has built Aureline Holdings—and her reputation—on absolute control. She reads every footnote, anticipates every weakness, and never lets anyone close enough to become one. But when leaked documents make her company look corrupt and a hostile takeover begins circling, immaculate authority is no longer enough.Tamsin Reyes knows exactly what a bad story can destroy. The th...

Margit Wexler knows better than to trust a woman who looks at her like she already belongs to her.Disgraced, broke, and desperate for work, twenty-eight-year-old archivist Margit Wexler accepts a position cataloguing the private collection of Countess Odalys Thorne on a remote island swallowed by fog. The manor is crumbling. Its rooms are crowded with centuries of letters, portraits, ledgers, and the traces of women no one seems willing to discuss.And its owner makes no eff...

Six years of silence was supposed to be enough.Briar Kessing has built a career on precision, control, and never needing anyone twice. Dahlia Okonkwo-Reyes has built hers on warmth, charm, and a smile bright enough to keep anyone from looking too closely. Once, they were creative partners with the kind of chemistry that made impossible projects work. Then one accusation destroyed their studio, their friendship, and everything neither of them had been brave enough to name.No...

Five years. One ranking between them. And neither woman knows where the rivalry ends and the wanting begins.Aleka Dorane has built her life around being untouchable. As the reigning world No. 1, she is ruthless on court, immaculate under pressure, and famous for giving the media nothing they can use against her. Winning is more than a career. It is proof that every sacrifice, every lonely hotel room, and every brutal hour of training was worth it.Yuki Faraday has spent five...

To save her sister, Elowen Vale must bargain with the monster everyone fears.Twenty-eight-year-old apothecary Elowen Vale has spent years making herself indispensable, reasonable, and good. Good women are harder to condemn. Useful women survive. At least, that is what she has told herself since obedience failed to save her mother from execution.Then the Order of Saint Orra arrests Elowen's younger sister for trafficking forbidden magic.Every legal door closes. Every...

The thing about armor is that it has to look good, or what's the point?Elijah Hart has spent his entire college life perfecting his: vintage band tees, carefully styled curls, and the unshakable belief that masculine guys don't want guys like him. Not art history majors who wear eyeliner. Not openly gay students who take up space unapologetically. And definitely not athletes like Stellan Volkov—the quietly intense, devastatingly beautiful campus heartthrob Elijah's been crushing on...

"I'm taking your job by Thanksgiving."Sierra Castellanos says it with a grin, a camera in her face, and half the basketball world waiting for Maya Ellison to react.Maya does not react. She has spent sixteen years building a career on discipline, control, and never giving the media a reason to turn her private life into a headline. At thirty-one, the veteran point guard has one goal left: win the championship that has always stayed just beyond her reach.Then Sierra a...

"Tell me this trade is a joke."Josephine Kilbride has spent ten years building a career no one can question. She takes the hardest hits, scores when it matters, and never lets anyone see where she bruises. But when a shocking midseason trade sends her to a struggling expansion team, she finds herself sharing a locker room with the one woman she has never forgiven.Delphine Ashworth ended Jo's college season with a single brutal check. Now she is the polished captain and publ...

"One of us will break first."That is the story the cameras want.Freya Lindqvist has spent a decade becoming untouchable. Cold, controlled, and relentlessly precise, she is the corporate-built champion expected to dominate the season—and she knows one visible weakness could cost her everything she has fought to earn.Isadora Marchetti has never had the luxury of being perfect. Driving for an underfunded constructor with everything to prove, she races like every corner...