VELVET BLOOD OATH
When Elara Vale turns eighteen, strange men begin watching her.
She is taken not violently, but carefully into a world she never knew existed.
Cassian Dray tells her one truth:
“You are not my prisoner. But you are not free.”
She learns her mother signed an oath in blood, binding Elara’s future to the Dray Syndicate.
The oath says:
“As long as the child lives under our shadow, the secret will never be spoken.”
But Elara does not know what the secret is.
As enemies rise, betrayals spread, and power shifts, Elara must decide:
Is she only a key?
Or can she become the hand that turns the lock?