The City Of Secrets

Violet Jude doesn't speak unless she has to. At sixteen, she's already learned how to disappear in plain sight - through crowded hallways, slammed doors, and quiet morning routines that feel like survival. Hardened by grief and disillusioned by people who never stayed.

Years later, Violet steps into the towering world of New York City - and into the building of the one man who was never supposed to notice her.

Ares Saint is cold. Untouchable. Unmatched. The kind of powerful that bends a room without speaking. He doesn't let people in. Not really. But something about Violet - her silence, her eyes, her refusal to be impressed - catches him off guard.

What begins as distance turns to tension. What was cold becomes heat.

Set against a backdrop of ambition, buried scars, and city lights, this is a slow-burn romance between a girl who trusts no one and a man who's trusted by everyone - except himself.

A story about survival, softness, and what happens when two guarded hearts stop pretending they don't care.