A PAWN IN YOUR GAME

Isabella Rossi is just a college student juggling classes, a part-time job at the campus bookstore, and dreams of finishing her degree in literature. Her life is simple, predictable, and far from the glittering world of high society that exists only in the pages of the books she reads. But when a crisp, embossed invitation arrives from Alistair Thorne, one of the city's most powerful and enigmatic men, her quiet routine is shattered in an instant.

Summoned to his gothic manor for a private dinner, Isabella finds herself face-to-face with a man who carries the weight of his name like impenetrable armor. At forty-two, Alistair is a master of control a man who sees life as a game where everyone is either holding the cards or being played. And he's chosen her to be his pawn.

His offer is straightforward: marry him in three months so he can claim a massive trust fund left by his father, and she'll walk away with enough money to pay off her student loans and build the future she's always wanted or stay, if she chooses. For Isabella, it's a choice that feels both like a gift and a trap. She knows she's being used, but beneath Alistair's cold exterior, she catches glimpses of something soft a man who's just as trapped in his own game as she is.

As they navigate the dangerous, glittering circles of high society together, the lines between pawn and player begin to blur. Isabella finds herself questioning whether she can trust the man who pulled her into this web and whether the feelings growing between them are real, or just another carefully calculated move in his master plan.

In a story of love, manipulation, and unexpected redemption, Isabella must decide: will she let herself be a piece in his game... or will she find a way to become the queen?