Alicia Cypher

The day I met a drop-dead gorgeous millionaire, I gave him a black eye… and smashed an electric guitar over his head. Turns out, I had a very good reason. Because this jerk had made a bet with his business partner—about me. And apparently, instead of calling the police, he decided to pay me a visit… in person. Looks like he’s dead set on winning that bet and proving that any woman can be bought—it’s just a matter of price. Well, he’s in for a very rude awakening. But out of all the women in the city… why did he choose me? I’m definitely not the type bored rich men usually go for. So what does he really want?

The whole internet is obsessed with Alina’s supposed affair… with her new rector. There’s just one problem—there is no affair. But once the rumor mill starts, there’s no stopping it. Now anything—anything—can be twisted into “proof” by eager gossip hunters. So what do you do when you suddenly find yourself at the center of a scandal? In a world where tabloids have been replaced by social media, and every passerby with a smartphone can play paparazzi—snapping a photo and sending it straight to an anonymous Telegram channel just waiting for fresh dirt on you… How do you fight a story everyone is already dying to believe?

For Diana, her guardian Kado was everything—until the day he vanished. All he left behind was an old journal bound in crimson. When she opens it, she uncovers a terrifying truth: the man who raised her was not human, but a creature known as a Shadow of Blood. But what happened to him? Where did he go—and how can she find him? Desperate for answers, Diana plunges into the past preserved within the journal. Yet what she discovers on its yellowed pages shatters everything she thought she knew. These are the secrets of darkness itself. Secrets of flesh and blood. Of a medieval order and an ancient cult. Of a fateful journey—and the mysterious events that plunged the world into chaos twenty years ago. Secrets about Kado… and about herself.