The Inner Circle

Victoria Astor has spent her life surviving-powerful families, buried truths, and a legacy that was never meant to be hers. When she becomes entangled with Henry Blackwood, a man as controlled as he is dangerous, their connection pulls her into a world where loyalty is currency and love is a liability.

At the center of it all stands Eleanor Kensington, a matriarch whose influence stretches through wealth, politics, and bloodlines-where nothing is accidental and no one is truly safe. As Victoria uncovers the truth behind Eleanor's empire, long-buried crimes surface, alliances fracture, and the cost of silence becomes impossible to ignore.

Alongside them are Grayson Kensington, caught between duty and rebellion; Ivy Kensington, searching for her own voice in the wreckage of her family's name; and Colin Tokes, whose loyalty may be the only thing that never wavers. Together, they navigate betrayal, control, and the dangerous question of who gets to write the ending.

What begins as survival becomes something far more fragile-and far more powerful: the choice to heal, to love, and to build a future unchained from the past.

Because some stories are forged in fire.
And others are written in what comes after.

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