Silk and Steel
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Surrounded by luxury, spoiled heiress Keziah Avrielle Salvatore, accustomed to a life of silk and indulgence, finds her world irrevocably altered by the arrival of Zaidia Eastrella Santiago, her new bodyguard. Zaidia, a woman of quiet strength and unwavering loyalty or so it seems is a force of steel, tasked with a secret mission to destroy Keziah's family from within. Their connection defies expectations, a dangerous dance between the silken allure of wealth and the cold, steel reality of betrayal. As forbidden attraction ignites, Zaidia is torn between her loyalty and the intoxicating pull of forbidden love.
Will Keziah survive the carefully constructed trap, or will she find a way to escape the steel trap her protector has set?
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