A Shadow in Silk
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Last published Fri, May 16, 2025
A romance. A conspiracy. A lie that starts with a smile.
After a summer back home in France, Magnolia Delaune returns for her sophomore year of college hoping for peace, healing, and maybe a little normalcy. What she finds instead is strangers in her living room, and a man with haunted green eyes stroking her judgmental cat like he owns the place.
Salvatore Moretti is too smooth, too observant-and way too interested in Magnolia. But when you're the son of one of the country's most powerful political players, you're used to getting close to people for all the wrong reasons. Magnolia? She was never supposed to matter. Just a means to an end.
But she's soft. She's open. And she makes him feel things he thought he was too trained out of to feel.
As secrets unravel and a hard drive tied to a money laundering scheme threatens to bring down more than just reputations, Salvatore and Magnolia find themselves trapped between family loyalty, dangerous truths, and the kind of love that cuts too deep for a simple bandaid.
In a world where trust is a currency and yet betrayal is survival, how do you properly love someone you were meant to discard?
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