BETRAYAL HEARTS, RISING FLAMES

gold across the silk curtains. Yet, inside, Elara felt nothing but the cold weight of unce

tor of her family by any means necessary. But now, whispers from the shadows, rumors of Ala

Lord Riven had been born from desperation, a sacrifice made when hope was slipping through her finge

ng like a flame against the dark

one the r

Elara felt the ripple in her own life. Lord Riven's fury was pal

tied to forces she barely understood. And Alaric, the man she had once loved, c

protect her family, yet the man who once promised to stand by

as a spy or a traitor, but as the woman who still held a flicker of love for h

re converging-one fueled by vengeance, t