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What happens when all hope of survival is lost after the death of a father and what you have to do to ensure you and your family’s survival is to work as a personal maid for an unstable billionaire who has a cruel family with dark secrets?
Meet Layla Vance – a 23 year old lady with a model figure who had to drop out of college after her father died or rather was murdered, leaving her mother who couldn’t provide the money for her and her brother’s school fees despite working multiple shifts at her job. Layla comes from a long line of witches, long forgotten and ancestral, the powers had skipped so many generations that they had even forgotten that there were ever witches in their ancestry, that’s is until the powers suddenly awakened in Layla thanks to a catalyst.
When things started getting even harder on her and her family, Layla had to drop out of college to allow her brother, Landon, finish schooling and she also had to look for a really good paying job and the best one she got was to become a personal maid to the famous model and TV star – Victor Lockwood.
Cue in Victor Lockwood, a superhot sexy billionaire model and actor. He is 26 years of age and looks so incredibly athletic and handsome, making him the most prominent bachelor in the city. Ladies trip for him everywhere he goes but he doesn’t really give a damn about them. He is a well known playboy because he wasn’t ready to stay committed thanks to a life changing incident where he got cursed and merged with a demon (a secret known only to the family). His family has been overly privileged from ages ago and still run the medieval castle system.

When a string of ritualistic murders strikes the rain-soaked streets of Crescent Heights, each crime marked by a bouquet of bloodied roses and a single matchstick, Detective Celia Hart finds herself drawn into a case unlike any she's faced before.
The victims share no clear connection—except the symbolism left at each scene and the lingering sense of something ancient lurking beneath the surface. But when a frightened survivor named Eliza Quinn whispers of a forbidden manuscript called The Ash Protocol, Celia's investigation veers into dangerous territory—where reality begins to fracture, and obsession takes root.
As she uncovers the dark history behind the Protocol and the man who carries it like scripture, Celia must confront not only a killer who believes he’s enacting divine will—but a secret so buried it rewrites everything she thought she knew about the city, the victims, and herself.
Some books don’t want to be found.
This one refuses to be forgotten.

Detective Lana Seo wakes up in a stranger’s body with no memory of how she arrived there. Each day, she inhabits a different person’s life — some allies, some adversaries — all connected by a sinister conspiracy lurking beneath the city’s surface. Haunted by fractured memories of her true self and pursued by unseen enemies, Lana must navigate shifting identities and hidden truths to uncover the dangerous secret before she loses her own soul to the shadows. With every step, the line between friend and foe blurs, and the price of the truth may be her very existence.