No Saints - The Empire of Her (Book 1) By Seryn Ryan Ashbourne - heir to the ruthless Ashbourne dynasty, and the crownless king of an empire soaked in blood and shadows. Cold, calculating, devastatingly beautiful. A man with danger in his smile and ruin in his touch. He wasn't meant to fall in love-especially not with her. Anaya Verma. Eight years younger. The wrong girl in the right world. The daughter of a man who once served the Ashbournes... and the only woman Ryan ever truly loved. But love doesn't survive the fire when betrayal burns it to ash. They were everything once. Obsessively in love. A storm wrapped in silk and steel. But one cruel night destroyed it all. It shattered her, wrecked every illusion-and whatever happened that night, it was enough to make her run. Far from the dynasty. Far from him. And Ryan? He disappeared like a ghost that never wanted to be found. Now, years later, he's back. But Anaya isn't the girl waiting by the fountain anymore. She's rage dressed in silk. She's the woman who built walls out of heartbreak and turned her pain into fire. She hates him. And he? He never stopped wanting her. Because she was always his. And if she wasn't his to love- He'd still take her anyway. There are truths darker than midnight. Secrets that cut deeper than love ever dared. And when obsession refuses to die, when love is born behind locked gates- There are no saints in this story. Only ghosts. And the reckoning they bring.