eternalbookaholic
Lyriella Rosenthal was born into a dynasty that has never lost. Not in anything that has ever mattered. For generations, the Rosenthals have been everything: the wealthiest in the world, philanthropists, musicians, the quiet unmovable force behind every major industry, every room where real decisions get made. There is no field they have not touched. No world they have not shaped. Lyriella is the heir to all of it. She was raised knowing that. And she is extremely good at the life she was born into.
Then, there is Everic de Rensselaer who had inherited a crown, a palace, and not much else. What Everic also has is her. Lyriella. Childhood friend. Who saw him as the person who he is rather than the title he was bestowed. The world had expected him to resent her. He never has.
This is their world now. Galas and dinner parties where every smile is a move and every conversation is also something else entirely A social world that is gorgeous and gilded and not entirely honest, populated by people who have been performing since birth and have gotten very good at it.
Lyriella moves through it flawlessly. Everic watches. Both of them are playing a game they learned before they had words for it. But underneath the dinners and the dynasties and the very expensive silences, something else is moving.
There are secrets the Rosenthals have never volunteered. Everic has a very good memory and one thing that the Rosenthals don't know about yet. And Lyriella, who has been raised never to let anyone see the whole board, is beginning to suspect that she herself has not seen all of it.
Some games were designed to last centuries.
Lyriella. Everic. Three perspectives, two dynasties, a world full of beautiful rooms with locked doors.
Old money. Older secrets. And two people who know each other too well to keep pretending they don't.
Follow through with their epic slow burn romance story with a touch of mystery. Ready to get obssessed with power, wealth, and above all, love.