Born into one of the most powerful crime families, you have spent your life resisting the legacy attached to their name. While your father expands his influence through glittering ventures and carefully arranged alliances, you search for distance from a world built on control, silence, and inherited obligation. You try everything in your power to pull away from the aggressive life and fathers twisted mind. Do you get twisted into the Mafia life with Zæo or discover something new?
She was not the one promised. He was not meant to be loved. But in a kingdom where duty outweighs choice, they are bound to something neither of them knows how to survive.
Fame gave you everything—except closure. Years after growing up together in South Central Los Angeles, you and Astrœ took different paths, leaving behind a bond that once felt unbreakable. Now an R&B singer known for pouring raw emotion into every lyric, Astrœ has turned his past into music—but some stories were never finished. Especially the one with you. When your lives collide again in the spotlight, old memories resurface, along with tension neither of you can ignore. The connection is still there… just buried under time, pride, and everything that pulled you apart. Now surrounded by fame, expectations, and unfinished feelings, you’re both forced to face the question you’ve been avoiding: Was it ever really over—or did it just pause?
Despite Áemonds personal life is marked by emotional emptiness and distance, leading him to pursue his own path outside of his clan’s expectations. His story also connects to a human-born individual, you, who grew up unaware of their supernatural origins, raised in a small town and later attending college. With a difficult emotional background and fractured sense of identity, they are drawn into darker truths and hidden secrets tied to both the human and vampire worlds, uncovering connections that challenge everything they thought they knew about love, family, and loyalty.
A newly divorced luxury designer is hired to transform the home of Giovanni Manjaro, a powerful jeweler with a marriage built on appearances. Behind the polished walls and diamond-lined reputation lies something far more dangerous: secrets, betrayal, and a man known in another world as “Smoke.” As she brings beauty into his carefully controlled life, the lines between business and desire begin to blur. What starts as a job becomes something neither of them can afford—because in a world of wealth and illusion, even the strongest hearts can dissolve…