The Silent Sovereignty

"In the city, I was a shark. In her forest, I am a secret. Together, we are a revolution."
Lionel Vane is the ivory-tower heir to a global empire-pale, calculated, and known as the "Gentle Predator." He doesn't use weapons to ruin people; he uses a pen. But when his ruthless father sends him to "acquire" a mysterious patch of unmapped forest, Lionel discovers that some things can't be bought. They must be survived.
Captured and chained in a world of ancient shadows, Lionel meets his match: Queen Malicent.
A woman of obsidian skin and an iron soul, Malicent is the sovereign of a realm that time forgot. She has ruled the Night for centuries, and she has no interest in Lionel's billions. To her, he is a fragile human with a brilliant mind-and a heartbeat that sounds like a challenge.
But a war is coming. Lionel's father has launched Project Silver-Sweep, a high-tech mission to burn the forest to ash. Meanwhile, a bloody rebellion is brewing within Malicent's own vampire court.
To save the forest and her throne, the ivory-tower strategist and the Midnight Queen forge a lethal pact:
He will be her shadow strategist, using modern technology and psychological warfare to outsmart his father.
She will be his protector, using ancient power to keep him alive in a world that wants to drink him dry.
In a game of velvet and steel, the lines between prisoner and partner begin to blur. As the drones hum above and the rebels howl below, Lionel must decide: will he return to his world of glass, or will he embrace the darkness to rule beside his Queen?