Enemies-to-lovers meets grumpy-sunshine across the stars

Alyna, the ice-cold mage with a razor-sharp tongue, has one rule: business before pleasure. As head of the largest elite security force in the city, her walls are higher than the Temple of Scorpio she's sworn to protect. Her company's facing bankruptcy? Just another problem to solve.

Until him.

Prince Caedmon—devastatingly handsome, impossibly eloquent, and hiding a broken heart beneath that royal exterior—arrives with an offer she can't refuse. He needs access to the temple's secrets. She needs his credits. Simple transaction.

Or it would be, if scorching chemistry didn't keep getting in the way.

When danger forces these opposites together, their carefully negotiated arrangement combusts into something neither expected. Now Alyna must choose between the control she's always clung to and the one man who makes her want to lose it.

In a world where trust comes with a price, their forbidden bond might be their greatest weapon—or their ultimate undoing.

Some risks are worth taking. Some hearts are worth fighting for.