The Scarlet Season

The St. James family survives on beauty, privilege, and scandal.

This season, blood runs closer to the heart.

Clara Ellery has always known how to play the game-smile when expected, charm when useful, and never let society think it understands her too well.

Then there is Bolton St. James.

A man who does not merely enter a room-he takes it.

Dangerously magnetic, infuriatingly self-assured, and exactly the sort of man Clara should avoid.

Naturally, she flirts with him instead.

But attraction is the easiest part of scandal.

Because old wounds do not stay buried. Some women are not easily forgotten. And in Valerique, love is rarely just love.

It is leverage.
Temptation.
War.

And some hearts are destined to break in scarlet.