The Thorne Heiress Unveiling Shadow

After eighteen years as the disposable "substitute" in the social-climbing Sutton family, Evelyn Thorne is cast out the moment the "true" heiress, Aria, returns. Shipped off with a pittance, everyone in New York's elite circle smirks, expecting her to vanish into the obscurity of a desolate, Rust Belt mining town—her supposed origin. They eagerly await the downfall of the girl who was never one of them.

They are about to be disappointed. Evelyn’s exile is not an end, but a homecoming.

When a bespoke, armored Koenigsegg—a ghost on the market—glides through the gates of the legendary Thorne Crest Estate in the Hamptons, the whispers begin. When Wall Street is thrown into chaos by the prophetic moves of the mysterious investment guru "Oracle," and when the digital underworld bows to the code of the god-tier hacker "Shadow," the truth begins to surface. The quiet girl they scorned is, in fact, a queen of multiple empires, each more powerful than the last.

And Kaelen Blackwood, the cold-blooded CEO of the Blackwood empire who annulled their childhood engagement without a second thought, finds himself hunting a mysterious rival who is his equal in every way—only to discover she is the very woman he threw away.

Kaelen Blackwood: "Is it too late to get you back?"

Evelyn Thorne: "Mr. Blackwood, my price has gone up. You can no longer afford me."