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HEIR OF SHADOWS
Some families are built on love. Others are built on secrets.
At seventeen, Athena Williams already owns a billion-pound tech empire, hides her face behind designer sunglasses, and keeps the world at arm's length. Control is everything to her. Control keeps people safe. Control keeps secrets buried.
Then Caterina disappears.
At first, Athena thinks her aunt simply left without warning again-something Caterina has always been good at. But when her calls stop going through, Joel vanishes without a trace, and strange pieces of Caterina's past begin surfacing, Athena realises something is very wrong.
With the help of her closest friends-Mica Gonzales, Max, and Mason Hunter-Athena starts digging for answers.
What begins as a missing persons search slowly unravels into something darker.
Old names. Hidden connections. Men who watch too closely. Files that should not exist. And a powerful family Athena has never heard of-but somehow seems tied to.
The deeper Athena investigates, the more she discovers that Caterina was keeping secrets long before she disappeared.
And some shadows were never meant to be found.
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