Beneath The Velvet Lie

Leona Vale's sole ambition is to kill the man who devastated her sister's life. When a strange scandal at Wolfhart Dynamics puts her younger sister Maya in the hospital and mute, Leona trades her own identity for a new one—Reyna Lancaster, a constructed tech heiress with a constructed history and just enough charm to get inside billionaire Cassian Wolfhart's inner circle. But Cassian is not the careless killer Leona anticipated. He is dangerously smart, obsessively secretive, and governed by a past as tormented as hers. When he proposes to hire her as his personal assistant—immersing her in his daily world, his trust, and his secrets—Leona is forced to tread a razor-thin line between truth and lies. The closer she draws to him, the more her beliefs start to unravel. As Leona negotiates high-society soirees, backroom boardrooms, and whispered betrayals, she uncovers a web of corruption much greater than Cassian. What starts as a mission for revenge becomes a war between duty and desire. Cassian might be concealing the truth from her… but maybe he's the one man who can save her from the lies she's created. Where power, secrets, and manipulation come with high stakes in a universe controlled by the same, Beneath the Velvet Lie explores what happens when the mask falls—and love takes root where betrayal was meant to. Will Leona trade justice for the truth? Or will the man she set out to destroy become the very one to save her from herself?