BLURB

Every lie has a price.

Hers was their future.

Esme Steel was born into BlackVeil, crowned a Duchess before she ever had a choice. Behind the gilded walls and blood - oathed power, her life was a cage built on silence and obedience.

At sixteen Lincoln Blackthorn was her only freedom. Her first love.

Her only escape.

Until the night everything changed.

A truth too dangerous to speak forced Esme to make an impossible choice, push him away with a lie that shattered his heart and saved his life.

Ten years later, Lincoln returns.

Older. Colder. Unforgiving.

To him, Esme is the girl who betrayed him. To her, he’s the boy she loved, and the only man who can never know the truth.

Because in BlackVeil, secrets don’t stay buried.

And when love collides with power, someone always pays the price.