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This description is crafted as a "Back Cover Blurb"-the kind that makes a reader stop in the bookstore, flip the book over, and feel their heart race. It highlights the high stakes, the London setting, and the crackling tension between Baxter and Ava.
The Velvet Vendetta
Two rivals. Five galas. One impossible choice.
In the rain-slicked shadows of London's underground, Ava is a myth whispered in the dark. Known only as The Wraith, she is the Crown Council's most lethal instrument-a surgical blade in a world of blunt force. She doesn't have a past, she doesn't have a heart, and she certainly doesn't have partners.
Baxter is the anomaly. A freelance phantom with a scruffy jawline and a penchant for impossible heists, he's the only man arrogant enough to wave at the woman sent to kill him. He's chaos in a tailored tuxedo, and he's currently standing between Ava and her target.
When the Crown Council-the five families that rule London from the shadows-announces the Obsidian Season, a series of elite masquerades to secure a ledger of every crime ever committed, the stakes turn deadly. Hired by a common enemy, Ava and Baxter are forced into an unholy alliance: pose as a doting aristocratic couple to infiltrate the galas and steal the ledger.
By night, they are Lord and Lady Sterling-the darlings of the high-society bloodbath, dancing under the skeleton of the Blue Whale and sipping champagne with monsters. By day, they are two predators sharing a Mayfair safehouse, sharpening knives and fighting a "slow burn" attraction that threatens to consume them both.
But as the masks begin to slip, Ava discovers a truth more jagged than any blade: the man she's falling for might be her only ally, but the people they work for are the ones who burned her world to the ground.
In a city built on secrets, the only thing more dangerous than the mission is the person holding your hand.
"I was trained to find your pulse so I could stop it, Baxter. Not so I could feel my own start for