The Obsidian Empire

“Billionaire Elias Vance demands total control of his empire—and the flawless assistant who runs it. But Clara Hayes is hiding a chronically ill son and the one secret that could topple his dynasty.”

Clara Hayes is the most composed woman on the fortieth floor of Obsidian Estates—and the most desperate. By day she is billionaire Elias Vance’s flawless executive assistant; by night, the exhausted, terrified mother of a chronically ill little boy, paying for his care out of a salary that depends entirely on the secret staying buried.

Elias trusts no one and needs no one. So when his composed assistant begins igniting something he refuses to name, he does what he always does—he claims, he commands, he consumes. And Clara, against every instinct screaming at her to run, surrenders to a man who could give her everything or take the only thing that matters.

Then Julian Croft arrives, launching a hostile audit engineered to expose Elias’s every liability—and his investigators are very good at finding what people hide. A locked drawer. A thirty-six-month gap. A child whose existence could shatter everything. Clara must decide how much she will risk to protect her son—and Elias must decide what his empire is truly worth.

“Maya Brooks spent three years building a fake life to infiltrate Obsidian Estates and protect her late sister’s son. She didn’t plan on Victor Sterling—the ruthless heir who decides he’s going to keep her.”

Maya Brooks has spent three years becoming someone else: a fabricated résumé, a rehearsed history, a face that never slips—all engineered to get her inside Obsidian Estates and close to Victor Sterling. She blames the Sterling dynasty for destroying her sister, and the dynasty has no idea that the little boy Maya is raising is its hidden heir.

The plan was simple: infiltrate, gather leverage, secure a future for Leo, and disappear. Victor Sterling was not part of the plan. He is glacial, exacting, a man who liquidates companies the way other people clear their inboxes—and his control cracks, just slightly, every time she beats him at his own game.

Then Julian Croft drops a dossier on Victor’s desk—a death certificate, a birth certificate, the truth Maya buried, laid bare in a rival’s elegant trap. Now the man she came to ruin holds the future of the only family she has left.

“Forensic auditor Nora Thorne takes the one job that can clear her daughter’s medical debt: a hostile audit of billionaire Silas Mercer’s private accounts. The catch—Silas is the man from the night she’s never told anyone about.”

Nora Thorne counts everything—debts, risks, the exact number of months she has hidden her daughter from the world. A senior forensic auditor drowning in medical bills, she accepts the one contract that can save her little girl: a hostile, high-stakes audit of billionaire Silas Mercer’s private ledgers. And it sends her straight back into the orbit of the one man she swore she’d never see again. Because Nora has audited Silas Mercer before, in a way no spreadsheet records—and the secret asleep under a pink quilt across the city has his eyes.

Silas built Obsidian Estates into a fortress of glass and control—until the auditor sent to dismantle his secrets reignites a hunger he’s spent years denying. He locks her in his world, and Nora, against every cold calculation she lives by, lets him.

Then the numbers stop adding up. A forty-two-million-dollar discrepancy. A rival circling with elevator logs and a deep-dive investigation. And a foil-stamped dossier moving toward Silas’s desk that holds the one figure Nora never entered into any ledger—a child’s birth certificate.