Steel Orchid Amid the Ashes

In late autumn in New York, a globally televised wedding is transformed by the bride, Aria Steele, into a trial of vengeance. With cold, ruthless precision, she exposes a multi-billion-dollar fraud orchestrated by her fiancé and her own father—only to voluntarily surrender herself to Blackwood Penitentiary. Her goal: to get close to Julian Croft, the key figure holding the truth behind her mother’s death. Bound by a contract marriage within the confines of a glass estate—under constant surveillance and relentless psychological testing—two individuals, both masters at manipulating the human heart, find themselves locked in a perilous game.