Behind the Curtain
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Last published Wed, May 14, 2025
Stella Monroe is everything a perfect daughter should be--poised, polished, and painfully obedient. An heiress to old money and older expectations, her life has always followed a script: private schools, ballet recitals, and now her final year at Coleridge Law. Her future? A prestigious firm and a marriage already arranged by her parents. Love is options. Rebellion? Unthinkable.
Until the steps behind the curtain.
When a new roommate introduces her to the electrifying, chaotic world of professional wrestling, Stella finds herself thrown into the glittering shadows of the WWA, World Wrestling Alliance--where personas are larger-than-life, and secrets are currency. And then there's him.
Finn Callahan--known to the world as The Reaper--is everything Stella shouldn't want. Tattooed, dangerous, and impossibly magnetic, Finn rules the ring with a villain's snarl and a sinner's grin. He's a man who shouldn't be drawn to a woman wrapped in silk and societal shackles. But the moment he sees her, it's already too late.
She was born into legacy.
He built his from blood and sweat.
She's engaged to another.
He doesn't share.
Their worlds were never meant to collide--but when they do, it's explosive.
And as Stella is pulled deeper into Finn's world of flashing lights and forbidden heat, she'll have to decide: Will she finally write her own story... or play the part she was born to perform?
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