He returned to destroy the Aldridges—and found the son Nova hid from him. Chapter 1: The Coffee Shop He Should Have Avoided The Seattle rain had a way of rewriting memory. Julian Ashby stood at the rain-fogged window of the…
Seven years ago she fled. Now she’s back with his son and the code to take down Sterling. The Pattern She Couldn’t Erase The meeting ran forty-one minutes over schedule. Alexander Blackwood tracked the overrun because the analog clock on…
He had one goal: destroy the Sterlings, win back Sofia, and claim the son he never knew. The Stranger Who Sends Money The coffee shop had a brass bell that didn’t belong on the door—someone had hung it decades ago…
Seven years ago she hid his son. Today that secret makes them Pemberton’s targets. Before He Was Daddy The coffee shop was called Groundshift, and Killian Rutherford hated it with the specific, bone-deep resentment of a man who had run…
He thought she was dead. She hid his son. Now the Ravenwoods know the boy exists. The Ghost at Table Four
One hidden son. One deadly family. A contract marriage that turned a lie into a war. The Coffee Shop Reunion The coffee shop had a name, something Italian that Vivian Holloway never bothered to pronounce correctly. She thought of it…
He lost Sofia once. Now their secret seven-year-old son stands between the crown and a traitor’s coup. The Coffeehouse Signet The coffeehouse sat wedged between a printer’s shop and a haberdashery on a narrow Mayfair street, its windows fogged with…
A signed contract brought them together. A little boy with Damian’s eyes made it forever. The Coffee Shop That Knew Too Much The bell above the coffee shop door chimed at 3:47 P.M., and Nova Caldwell checked her phone for…
He vanished to protect her. Six years later, her son is his mirror—and the Blackthorns want him. The Ghost at the Coffee Shop The café was doing its usual eleven-forty-five surge, the line at the register doubling back toward the…
A Hollywood fixer discovers the hidden son, then must outlevel the dark Blackthorn empire to keep his family safe. The Coffee-Shop Level The espresso machine hissed like a cornered animal, and Alexander Winslow counted the exit points without thinking. Three…