Chains of Velvet

Seventeen-year-old Elara Voss has grown up under the rule of her severe, high-status parents. They control every aspect of her life-her voice, her choices, even her future. When the family's financial empire begins to crumble, her parents strike a desperate deal: Elara is to be promised to the heir of a powerful, dangerous family in exchange for protection and money.

She is not "sold," but she is treated as a bargaining piece, with no say in her fate.

Enter Kade Ardyn, the heir-cold, unreadable, feared by nearly everyone. Rumors say his family is tied to illegal empires, and Kade himself carries darkness he refuses to speak of.

Elara expects cruelty. Instead, she finds a man torn between the life he's been shaped into and the humanity he is terrified to show. Their relationship begins with resentment, distrust, and fear, but slowly-through small acts of defiance, shared secrets, and dangerous nights-they form a reluctant bond.

But Kade's world is lethal.
And Elara's parents would rather see her broken than let her escape their control.

A dark romance grows in the shadows, where love becomes rebellion-and rebellion becomes survival.