Nyx Calderon, the brilliant but isolated CEO of Calderon Aether-Tech, is fighting a losing war on every front. Her company is collapsing under mysterious sabotage, rival syndicates are circling like predators, and her own family is preparing to remove her from power before she destroys the Calderon legacy forever.
Desperate to save her father’s dream, Nyx accepts an impossible deal from the last man she should ever trust.
Elias Vance.
Cold, calculating, and dangerously influential, Elias controls the city’s largest energy syndicate. His proposal is simple: a fake engagement, a public marriage alliance, and eighteen months of pretending to be the perfect corporate power couple.
In exchange, he will protect her company from ruin.
But in a city built on secrets, contracts are never simple. As political conspiracies, internal betrayals, and corporate warfare threaten to tear Neo-Virewood apart, Nyx and Elias begin to realize their staged relationship may be the most dangerous thing either of them has ever agreed to.
Because the longer the performance lasts…
the harder it becomes to remember what was supposed to be fake.