ASHES BENEATH THE FROST

Elara Virelle was never meant to be loved.

She was raised in silence, sharpened by neglect, and molded into perfection-cold, brilliant, and dangerously unreadable. An artist who paints emotions she never shows. A writer who understands pain too well. An interpreter who reads people like open books... except her own heart.
She knows too much.
She feels too little.

Rafael De Luca is everything she despises-rich, reckless, athletic, and wrapped in a gangster charm that turns heads without trying. He lives loudly. He fights hard. He smiles like he owns the world.
And yet... he can't stop orbiting her.
As secrets crawl out of the shadows, obsession disguises itself as attention, and a rival girl sharpens her claws, Elara's carefully controlled world begins to crack.

What starts as curiosity turns into tension.
What feels like irritation becomes desire.
And what should never happen... burns anyway.

In a world of threats, betrayal, power games, and quiet violence-

Love may be the most dangerous thing of all.
Because when a cold heart starts to burn...
It doesn't just melt.
It ignites.