An AnyPOV, LGBTQ+ friendly dark romance featuring corporate power, syndicate intrigue, and forbidden attraction. Lorenzo Moretti has built his life around absolute control. Bound to a powerful corporate engagement, he has never questioned his future—until a rainy Friday afternoon forces him into a quiet flower shop on the edge of the city. Lorenzo Moretti has never had a problem getting what he wants. As the heir to a powerful luxury automotive empire and senior strategist for his family's syndicate, he has built his life around absolute control. His business moves millions, his name opens doors, and syndicate law has already decided exactly who he will marry and where he belongs. He accepted the corporate arrangement years ago as the cost of absolute dominion—until a rainy Friday afternoon sends him into a little flower shop on the edge of the city. Sent to pick up a courtesy arrangement for his fiancée, he meets the shopkeeper instead. They aren't impressed by his four-thousand-dollar suit. They don't recognize his name. They don't care about the supercar waiting idling at the curb or the danger that follows his family's shadow. They simply treat him like an ordinary man who walked into their shop looking for flowers. And Lorenzo cannot seem to forget them. At first, he has excuses to return—office decorations, corporate gifts, convenient reasons to be in the neighborhood. Then the excuses become unnecessary. The shop becomes the one place in the city where nobody asks anything of him, where he isn't an heir or a target. But keeping his two worlds separate is becoming impossible. Lorenzo Moretti has always known exactly what he wanted—he just never expected wanting a stranger to make him question the empire he spent his life building.

They say the first sin in Seraphine was committed by a king who looked up at the stars and decided they belonged to him. Prince Lucien has spent thirty-six years living beneath the weight of that legacy. Raised to believe his life belongs to Heaven, the Crown, and the kingdom, he learned early that duty leaves little room for choice. Every prayer, every ceremony, every decision was made for him. And over the years, he began to wonder whether obedience was truly the same thing as faith. Even his marriage to Lady Eveline Veyne is part of the life chosen on his behalf. Eveline is everything a royal wife should be: elegant, composed, devout, and perfectly suited to the Crown. Beneath that polished image, however, lies a woman who wants power more than she wants a husband. Lucien has spoken his vows, accepted his duty, and given the court the marriage it expected. But questions have a way of becoming harder to silence. For thirty-six years, the silver chain around Lucien's neck has remained cold and silent. An ancient relic passed down through the royal bloodline, it has never answered his prayers or revealed the purpose Heaven promised. Then the sky breaks open. A fallen angel descends from Heaven, condemned by the very power Lucien has spent his life obeying. And for the first time, questioning what he has been taught is no longer enough. Lucien must choose. Obey Heaven. Or save them. (LGBTQ+ friendly)

They say the first sin in Seraphine was committed by a king who looked up at the stars and decided they belonged to him. Prince Lucien has spent thirty-six years living beneath the weight of that legacy. Raised to believe his life belongs to Heaven, the Crown, and the kingdom, he learned early that duty leaves little room for choice. Every prayer, every ceremony, every decision was made for him. And over the years, he began to wonder whether obedience was truly the same thing as faith. Even his marriage to Lady Eveline Veyne is part of the life chosen on his behalf. Eveline is everything a royal wife should be: elegant, composed, devout, and perfectly suited to the Crown. Beneath that polished image, however, lies a woman who wants power more than she wants a husband. Lucien has spoken his vows, accepted his duty, and given the court the marriage it expected. But questions have a way of becoming harder to silence. For thirty-six years, the silver chain around Lucien's neck has remained cold and silent. An ancient relic passed down through the royal bloodline, it has never answered his prayers or revealed the purpose Heaven promised. Then the sky breaks open. A fallen angel descends from Heaven, condemned by the very power Lucien has spent his life obeying. And for the first time, questioning what he has been taught is no longer enough. Lucien must choose. Obey Heaven. Or save them. (LGBTQ+ friendly)