They crowned her, dressed her in gold, and taught her how to kneel. But they never taught her how to survive him. That, she learned alone. Once, she was gentle. Now men whisper her name with fear. She traded silk for steel, a throne for the battlefield, and somewhere along the way, the woman she used to be disappeared. Seven years ago, Elias left home for what was supposed to be a two-year journey. He never came back. Eventually, everyone assumed he was dead. Then one day, Elias walks through the palace gates alive and discovers that the home he remembers no longer exists. One nephew is dead. Another is terrified of his own shadow. The once loud, reckless king Elias helped raise has become cold and empty, wandering through a palace where laughter has been replaced by locked doors, graves, and people too broken to explain what happened. Seven years. A trail of bodies. Missing records. Burned letters. And one queen everyone seems afraid to speak about. Elias is determined to uncover what destroyed his family, but he refuses to let grief be the only thing left behind. So between searching for answers, he starts doing something no one else has had the strength to do. He brings the music back. Opens the curtains. Fills the dining hall. Makes the children laugh. And slowly tries to teach a broken kingdom how to live again. Then he finds her. The queen people call cruel. The woman war turned into something terrifying. She does not want to be rescued, fixed, or softened. Elias does none of those things. He simply stays. He is not a king. But he treats her like a queen. And while Elias slowly uncovers the truth behind seven missing years, their quiet companionship becomes something neither of them expected. Because the closer he gets to her, the more he begins to wonder what if the woman everyone fears was never the monster in this story? What if she was simply the one who survived long enough to be blamed?

"This was suppose to be easy, nobody was suppose to get hurt". Twenty year old Ivory Santana was what most people would call friendly and caring. She'd be the person you'd least expect to have a father running one of the biggest drug trafficking industry's in America. Ivory has went through great measures keeping that part of her life private while attending college at NYU, that is until she's taken. Twenty two year old Jade and his older brother Ohaji are 2 completely different types of people that you wouldn't expect to even associate with each other if they weren't related. With dreams of one day being as legendary as their father once was. The two brothers were given the task of kidnapping their boss, big Al's enemy's daughter until he agrees to compromise. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG. What happens when Ivory teams up with the brothers and this turns into a cat and mouse game between bonds and blood?