Velvet Shadows - DARK ROMANCE
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Some shadows are meant to follow you...
Lila lives in light. Her laughter fills rooms, her warmth draws people close, and she believes in the beauty of ordinary days-until a stranger with stormy eyes and a dangerous silence crosses her path.
Cassian is a man of secrets, a brooding shadow in the corners of her world. He doesn't smile, he doesn't explain, and yet he makes her heart race in ways she can't name.
Drawn together by a force neither can control, their connection is magnetic, consuming, and terrifying. Lila must navigate the line between desire and danger, between the life she knows and the darkness that threatens to claim her entirely.
In a game of obsession, trust is fragile, and love... can be lethal.
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