"Give me gold, and I'll bring your daughter back to you." In which Esme Shelby-Lee trades life for death, and children for gold. In which Evanghelie and Erasmus find themselves trapped in choices and worries. In which they both enter a world they can't escape.

Duke Shelby doesn't take kindly to being turned into a headline, and he'll do whatever it takes to keep his family's name out of print-even if that means silencing the stubborn American who refuses to leave. But Ruth isn't easily frightened, and Duke isn't as unreadable as he'd like to be. What begins as a battle of control becomes something far more dangerous. Because the closer Ruth gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell where the story ends- and where she begins. Small. Unnoticed. Easy to overlook. Until she isn't. Book Cover: @Mat Williams Illustration

The Wildest Mikaelson... The Happy Homicidal Maniac... The Willy Fox... The Worst of the Worst... All names used to describe the youngest Mikaelson brother. Throughout his long life, Kol fancied himself the black sheep of the family, believing that his siblings considered him more of a nuisance than a brother. When Kol woke up after being daggered a century, he couldn't wait to leave Mystic Falls and his siblings behind. What Kol hadn't expected was to find an annoying young woman living in his older brother's house; even less did he expect said woman to possess a magic so fascinating that he simply couldn't leave until he'd found out what hid behind those innocent blue eyes.