His Ruthless Touch

When Ashlyn Vaelith arrives at Blackmoor Estate, it is meant to be a temporary retreat from the city's cold ambitions-a place to escape, reflect, and disappear. But the mansion isn't just a shadowed relic of the past. Its walls breathe memory, its halls conceal legacy, and its master, Lucien Thorne, is not a man to welcome strangers without reason.

Lucien is calculated, unreadable, and bound by something far older than fortune or fame. Beneath his cold exterior lies a web of secrets tied to ...