VELVET RUINS

How do you survive a woman who has nothing left to lose... and everything planned?
Valentine Volts disappeared the night she chose love over truth.
She took the blame.
She swallowed the sentence.
She buried herself alive for a man who promised forever.
TEN years later...
she walks out with a lighter in one hand and revenge in the other.
But Kian Arledge isn't the man she left behind.
He's richer.
Untouchable.
Married into power.
And Valentine?
She doesn't knock on doors anymore.
She slips in through the cracks.
Lucien Drax-his son in everything but name.
Cold. Careful. Untamed in ways that don't show until it's too late.
He was never supposed to matter.
Just a means.
A weapon.

Now the lines blur.
Revenge starts to feel like desire.
Control starts slipping like smoke through her fingers.
And the woman who once sacrificed everything for love...
might lose everything again-
This time, by choice