In the smog-choked city of Valdora, rebellion festers in the shadows while the world bows to one man's rule. Lena Voss is a resistance operative-trained to deceive, to seduce, to dismantle tyranny from within. Her newest mission: infiltrate the court of Alaric Vane, the iron-fisted ruler feared across the continent. But Alaric is not the monster the world paints him to be. He's calculated, charismatic, and haunted by a vision of order no one else dares to understand. When Lena enters his world under false pretenses, the game of masks begins-and every glance, every lie, every touch blurs the line between betrayal and desire. In a kingdom ruled by fear, can love bloom between two enemies? Or will it destroy them both before the truth is ever revealed?