Velvet Vengeance

Ten years ago, the Blackwood empire destroyed Elara Kane’s family. Her father died by suicide. Her mother followed soon after. Elara spent a decade becoming someone unrecognizable—beautiful, polished, and lethal—so she could walk straight into the world that ruined her and burn it down from the inside. Her target is Damian Blackwood, the cold, brilliant heir who carries the weight of every Blackwood sin. Seduce him. Earn his trust. Steal the evidence that will collapse the empire. Walk away. But Damian is not the easy prey she expected. He sees the cracks in her perfect performance almost immediately—and instead of exposing her, he decides to play. What begins as calculated seduction turns into a dangerous psychological war where every touch is a weapon and every secret cuts both ways. As desire blurs the line between hatred and obsession, Elara discovers the most dangerous truth of all: the man she planned to destroy may be the only person who has ever truly seen her. And the revenge she has lived for might cost her the one thing she never planned to lose—herself.