The World Between Us

Some cages are gilded. Some prisons are built for two.

Selena Jensen is the reluctant heiress to a trillion-dollar media empire, suffocated by the demands of her cold, ruthless parents. Still haunted by the psychological trauma of a past abusive relationship, she lives a life of meticulously controlled silence, her only release found in the jagged, bleeding stanzas she secretly writes in her journal. To her family, she is porcelain-beautiful, fragile, and absolutely essential to the brand.

Damien Valcour is the golden son of a powerful political dynasty, groomed since birth to be a Senator. Beneath his flawless suits and charismatic smile is a man hollowed out by the relentless pressure of expectation, using chaotic, hidden art to fight the terrifying numbness that threatens to consume him. He is the ultimate Prince of Sterling University, representing everything Selena's family has sworn to destroy.

When a violent storm forces their collision, the attraction is instant and devastating. They recognize the same desperate, fractured truth beneath each other's masks-the ink stain on her hand meeting the turpentine on his skin. Their forbidden digital war-a furious exchange of poetry and pain-quickly spirals into an obsessive, medium-burn romance that defies logic.

But their relationship is built on secrets and fueled by rage. As their fathers escalate a corporate and political war, Damien is blackmailed into a cold engagement, and Selena is targeted by the dangerous ghost of her past, Carson. They must decide if their desperate, soulful connection is strong enough to conquer the empires they were born into, or if they are destined to be collateral damage in their parents' final, devastating game.