"Max Verstappen is your cousin? Why didn't you tell me that before?" The brunette shrugged casually. "I didn't think it was relevant." "He tried to kill me! Obviously I would have liked to know I was making love to his cousin!" ___________________________________________ In 2019 Model and Singer Valencia Verstappen is one of the most recognisable faces in the world. By day, she's a professional with a relentless work ethic, but by night - she's a 'party-girl' with an icy attitude and an indifference to love. Lewis Hamilton is a five time formula one world champion - challenging for a sixth. Publicly, he's a serial winner with a kind heart; privately - an emotionally unavailable playboy too self-interested to settle down. When the two cross paths at an after-party, their lives change forever. #1 - charles 24/09/25 (WHAT!!) #4 - lewis 13/12/24!!!! #34 - f1 !!! #10 - lewishamilton #14 - lewis #1 - maxverstappen!! #8 - cl16 AN: you do NOT have to have read the prequel to read this book!! that's just backstory for Valencia and how she ended up close with some of the characters in this novel. You can read it while waiting for updates or even read it after the second book is finished for some easter eggs you might not have noticed!! xx

In the shadow of the throne of Hastinapur, where duty is mistaken for virtue and silence is mistaken for strength, a marriage fractures before it even begins. When Gandhari binds her own eyes in an act of devotion to her blind husband, the court hails her as the ideal queen. But to Satyavaati, it is not sacrifice-it is failure. A king without sight cannot afford a queen who refuses to see. And so, a second bride is brought into Hastinapur. Charulata. Sharp, unyielding, and quietly ambitious, enters the palace not as a victim of fate, but as a player of the game. Where Gandhari embodies restraint, Charulata becomes a vision. Where one endures, the other acts. And in the blind king Dhritarashtra, she finds both a weakness to exploit and a power to command. Not all battles are fought with weapons. Some are fought in silence and lost long before they are ever seen.