In an empire where loyalty is everything and rebellion is death, General Lev Kuznetsov is the crown’s most feared weapon. They call him the Bloodhound.He does not hesitate. He does not question. And he does not fail. At his side stands April—his wife, his quiet opposite, and the empire’s most admired woman. Graceful, intelligent, and untouchable, she moves effortlessly through high society, far removed from the smoke and struggle that built the world beneath her. But April was not born into power. And she has never forgotten what it feels like to live without it. When her younger brother vanishes—his name whispered alongside a rising underground figure known only as the Viper—April turns to the one man who should help her. Instead, Lev tells her to let it go. He doesn’t ask questions. He doesn’t offer answers. And for the first time in their marriage— He lies. As suspicion begins to unravel everything she thought she understood, April is forced to step beyond the safety of her gilded life and into the shadows of a city on the edge of rebellion. There, she finds an unexpected ally: a man from her past, long thought lost, who now moves through the world as both witness and survivor. Caught between the husband who would do anything to protect her, the man who reminds her who she used to be, and a revolution rising from beneath the empire itself, April must decide where her loyalty truly lies. Because in a world built on control—Love is dangerous. And the truth? Even more so