Velvet Shadows
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On the brink of turning eighteen, heiress Isabella Leclerc seems to have everything-beauty, wealth, and status-but secretly longs for freedom from her gilded cage. Then she meets Adrian Beaumont, a 22-year-old heir from an old money family who lives in the shadows of society, preferring books to ballrooms. Their reluctant partnership soon sparks a forbidden slow-burn romance, where every glance carries the weight of reputation, family expectation, and the risk of scandal.
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