How would you play a game where every player already knows your plan? Where everyone's watching your every move. Where every word is a lie. Where every heart is hidden behind a veil that must never be lifted. Would you still play the game? Or would you change the rules? Zahara Veron Quinn, a skilled police agent in a secret government organization called Apex Veil, is tasked to bring down the key to all of their problems-Elijah Ace Sebastian Walton, the criminal who always seems to be one step ahead. But as soon as their paths collide, what begins as a mission soon turns into a battle where duty and desire stand on opposite sides of the same line. A gun to the head? Or a knife to the throat? Can they stop the inevitable? Or will they surrender to the fate that binds them? In this game of hearts, not every player survives. Secrets. Love. Betrayal. Death. Are you ready to play?