CROWN AND LIES

“I woke up to freezing sheets, an empty bed, and a stolen artifact. The six-foot-four personal guard who had consumed me completely just hours before had vanished into the night, leaving nothing behind but his discarded crest.” In her past life as a ruthless corporate risk analyst, Evangeline lived strictly by numbers and logic. So when she transmigrates into the body of a powerless, “hollow” Queen with a target on her back, she treats her treacherous monarchy like a failing business. She audits the corrupt lords, seizes black-market assets, and keeps her quiet, lethal bodyguard, Kaelen, pinned to her side to manage the danger. But her spreadsheets completely fail to calculate the raw, suffocating heat between them. Behind closed doors, Kaelen doesn’t act like a servant. Every possessive touch and the terrifying, forbidden power he wields in secret prove he is hiding a massive, lethal variable. But the night she finally stops calculating risk, the night he leaves her defenses completely unraveled, is the exact night he betrays her, steals her most valuable asset, and disappears. Left heartbroken, vengeful, and politically cornered, Evangeline refuses to be a pawn. When a dangerously obsessive Duke from the North steps out of the shadows to claim her throne and her bed, she decides to play dirty to balance the ledger. But her rogue guard made a fatal error in his calculations. When rumors of her upcoming wedding echo outside the kingdom, the quiet protector vanishes, and a ruthless monster awakens. Driven insane by a dark, possessive jealousy, he will tear the entire realm apart to crash the altar and claim what is his. Because she might hold the crown, but he is about to show her exactly who owns the room. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: CROWN AND LIES — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠