CarrieWaters
Some secrets are worth dying for. Some are worth killing for. And some... will burn your entire world to the ground.
Ryle Winters has spent twenty-three years perfecting the art of invisibility. Drowning in textbooks, staying away from social media, she's survived by staying small, staying quiet, staying safe. But when a single assignment pulls her from her gray existence into the gilded, venomous world of Los Angeles' elite, survival takes on a whole new meaning.
The mission was simple: infiltrate. Pretend.Find evidence of a secret society that is behind many crimes in the country. Evidence of her father's murderer. Ryle was supposed to be the FBI's spy in their champagne-soaked halls-observe, extract, disappear. She wasn't supposed to be the target of Andrew Ford's calculating gaze, sharp as broken glass and twice as dangerous. She wasn't supposed to crave the chaos that Logan Ford wears like cologne, all reckless smiles and ruinous charm.
One brother wants to control her. The other is determined to unravel her.
As Ryle descends deeper into a labyrinth of black-tie galas, whispered conspiracies, and blood-old family vendettas, the line between predator and prey dissolves. The elite don't just play games-they destroy lives for sport. And Ryle is hiding something explosive enough to detonate their entire empire.
But here's the cruelest twist: the deeper she falls into their world, the more she's trapped. And when the news breaks like a gunshot: someone who should have never seen daylight again has escaped FBI custody. A pawn who now holds the cards. A witness. A ticking clock.
Ryle knows it's only a matter of time before the truth comes out. Before the life she's stitched together-every lie, every stolen touch, every dangerous alliance-unravels completely. And when it does, she will never escape their vengeance.
DARK. DECADENT. DEADLY.
The games have begun. The only question is: who will survive them?