​Seraphina Voss is the prized asset of Manhattan's elite, a flawless, billion-dollar heiress engaged to Damien Sterling, the East Coast's most eligible and predictable financier. Their forthcoming marriage is a cold, strategic merger—a perfect corporate power play sealed with a diamond. For the world, Seraphina is a vision of control and sophistication, but her perfect life is nothing more than an exquisitely gilded cage.​Her true self emerges in the shadows, fueled by a scorching, secret affair with Elijah Cross, her brooding and dangerously magnetic art dealer. Elijah represents everything Damien is not: volatility, raw passion, and an absolute lack of boundaries. Their relationship is Seraphina’s private rebellion—a venue where she sheds the heiress mask to command and dominate, asserting the power she wields in the boardroom within the bedroom.​As the wedding approaches, the pressure mounts. Seraphina’s vast inheritance hinges on maintaining her pristine image. The delicate balance she has mastered begins to crumble as Damien's suspicions harden into demands, and Elijah's desire turns possessive, threatening to expose their secret.​Seraphina, a master strategist, finds herself in a precarious love triangle where the stakes are reputation, fortune, and freedom. She expertly manipulates both men, using her secrets as currency, until the tension snaps. The game of control turns deadly, forcing Seraphina to face the devastating reality that in a world of velvet shadows, only one person can walk away intact.