Steel Orchid and Ashes

New York, late autumn. A globally live-streamed wedding is hijacked by bride Aria Steele and turned into a tribunal of revenge. With cold, ruthless precision, she exposes her fiancé and father's billion-dollar conspiracy—yet deliberately has herself incarcerated at Blackstone Prison, all to get close to Julian Croft, the key figure at the heart of her mother's death. Contractual marriage, a glass-encased estate, surveillance and probing at every turn—these trap two people, each equally skilled at trading in human hearts, in a high-stakes game of mutual destruction.