Red as Blood

On Las Isle Rue, beauty is never just beauty.

It's currency. It's reputation. It's survival.

Levana Wells is trying to piece her life back together after her grandmother's death, but grief doesn't stay quiet for long on an island like this. Not when there are emerald dancing shoes left behind and too many questions no one wants answered.

Isme St James was supposed to inherit a future already chosen for her-elegant, controlled, perfect. Instead, she's counting down the days until she loses the only thing she still wants: her freedom.

Ezekiel Sung has spent his whole life surrounded by legacy, expectation, and carefully locked doors. Now the Red Shoes-family relic, whispered curse, and something that should not exist the way it does-have gone missing.

And on Las Isle Rue, missing things never stay missing for long.

Because the island has a story it keeps telling. About a shoemaker, a princess, and a pair of red shoes that don't care who you are... only that you choose them.