Shards of a Broken Heart

Lia Erhall Valerio is an influential, puissant, and fiercely hot-headed sovereign of style, a woman who does not merely lead the largest fashion industry the world has ever known-she dominates it. Her authority is absolute, her influence tectonic, and her temper as legendary as her vision. Entire markets bend at her will; trends are born or buried by her approval alone. Under her command, fashion is not an art of softness or submission, but a realm of power, precision, and unapologetic force-and Lia Valerio reigns over it without rival. She never shows weakness and vulnerability until a certain man walks into her life with the force of a tornado.
Elias Caspian Knight is a man who doesn't merely negotiate what he wants, he claims it. Unrelenting. Unapologetic. And inevitable. But Lia isn't his want, she is his need. And he will claim her even if she resists, denies and defies at every step of the way.Their history is tangled, raw, and electric. He was once hers completely, and that bond lingers like a live wire between them. The moment he sees her again, years later, every instinct-the possessiveness, the longing, the maddening adoration-resurfaces. Lia Valerio, the influential, puissant, and famously hot-headed queen of Valencia, is not someone who yields easily. And yet Elias is relentless. He pushes, he teases, he corners her-not with cruelty, but with the undeniable force of his love. To him, they are meant; to him, she has always been his.

Their reunion is combustible. Sparks ignite in boardrooms, private studios, and late-night encounters where words are too weak to contain desire. Elias's presence erodes her armor. Lia resists, fights, and roars-but under the surface, the history they share keeps drawing her in. Every touch is a reminder of the intimacy they once surrendered, every heated argument a confession neither admits aloud.