Petals & Peril

"I was raised to be a monster. But for her, I'd be a savior. Or the fire that burns it all down."

Jade Morningstar is a man of cold stone and calculating silences. At twenty-eight, he is the crown prince of a mafia empire built on blood and broken bones. He doesn't feel. He doesn't love. He simply executes his father's will.

Until he sees her through a rain-streaked car window.

Rhea Iris Grace is eighteen years of sunshine in a yellow sundress. She hums when she walks, she smells like lilies and earth, and she doesn't know that the Morningstar name is the reason she grew up fatherless.

He is the storm. She is the only flower he can't bring himself to crush.

Jade knows he should stay in the shadows. He knows his obsession is a death sentence for an innocent girl like Rhea. But when a ghost from the past threatens the only light he's ever known, Jade will have to choose:

Follow his father's cold-blooded legacy, or tear the world apart to keep her blooming. 🌷