Rena was born with power-power meant for a ruler, stolen by a tyrant, and buried beneath a lifetime of lies. Branded a witch, hunted like prey, she has spent years hiding in the shadows, waiting for her chance at revenge. That chance comes when she lets herself be captured, intending to infiltrate the palace and kill the man who stole her mother's life. But she never expected to fall into the hands of Alex Ravon, the Blood Hound of Mysiri-merciless, unyielding, and the king's most loyal knight. Bound in chains, forced to travel beside the very man who would see her burned at the stake, Rena refuses to break. But Alex isn't interested in broken things. He wants to see her fight. To watch her struggle, to make her kneel. "For a witch, you're quite fragile." "And for a knight, you talk too much." She is his prisoner. He is her captor. But as the days stretch on and war looms in the distance, hatred twists into something far more dangerous. Because in this game of prey and predator, neither of them is willing to lose.

She built her empire on blood, fear, and silence. Arora - the infamous queen of the Black Rose Gang - is a name whispered in the underworld, a shadow feared even by monsters. In two years, she turned a crumbling syndicate into an empire. She doesn't lose. She doesn't love. Until him. Jack - a man too soft for her world, too bright for her darkness. He was supposed to be a pawn, a hostage she could forget the next day. But his smile, his innocence, his maddening warmth... they tore through her armor one heartbeat at a time. Now she's torn between the gun and the heart - between the empire she bled to build and the man who makes her want to burn it all down. Because in her world, love isn't a fairytale. It's a weapon. And Arora is about to find out what happens when the most dangerous woman alive falls for the one man she was never meant to touch.