A double life is an art of deception-and Daisy Lockwood has mastered it. By day, she's a brilliant prosecutor's assistant in Canyon Springs, a rising star in the legal world. By night, she's the reluctant heiress to Theodore Vanderbilt's corrupt empire, a man who owns the city-and her future. Her father forced her into his world, trading her dreams of botany and quiet solitude for power, lies, and bloodstained loyalty. But everything changes when Ash Hollow appears-her father's enigmatic young lover. In him, Daisy sees a reflection of her own trapped soul. Now, she faces an impossible choice: play the perfect daughter, upholding the family's legacy of crime? Or burn it all down, even if it means destroying herself in the process? And what happens when the line between manipulation and desire begins to blur?

Daisy Lockwood is no longer a pawn. Trading her office suit for bespoke fabrics, she enters her father's machine - to dismantle it from within. ​But something darker than power and money lurks in Canyon Springs. A place where the elite offer sacrifices in the name of a twisted faith. Where a cult is rising, one that even the most powerful voices dare not whisper about. ​What if she fails to break the system? What if the system breaks her instead - and a monster in her father's image crawls out from the cracks? ​Is this world even worth changing - or is it time to run? Because the closer she gets to the truth, the higher the risk of losing someone truly vital.