The World Sees a Good Girl.
To the millions who scream her name, Rory Dixon, 25, is “The Global Pop Icon”—a 5'11" ethereal vision with honey-gold eyes that cannot tell a lie. She is a hugely successful and famous pop star with a decorated music career at the young age of fifteen. They see the silk ribbons in her wheat-colored hair and hear the vulnerability in her songs. They don’t see the callouses on her fingers and what she has been through. Everybody loves her. Everybody hates her. There were the ones in between.
Rory was always gracious, kind, and polite; a sweetheart and a darling in front of the public, her fans, and the camera. But behind the scenes, however, the pop star tends to become a completely different person.
The Underworld Knows a Devil.
In the Triad, the world’s most dangerous mob family, there is a god for every sin. And Malphas Lucian Mordrak, 30, is the most dangerous of them all.
As the firstborn son of the First Wife of the most powerful and the wealthiest Mob Boss, Malphas is the undisputed heir to Heaven—the highest and most elite executive branch of the city's ultimate ruthless criminal empire. Known as the "Architect of Silence," he is a man of clinical precision and icy detachment. He doesn't feel; he calculates. He doesn't compete with his half-brothers born to the lower-ranking wives; he simply overlooks them from his glass throne. To Malphas, the world is a series of glitches to be corrected, and emotions are the world's deadliest flaw.
One is a prisoner of the spotlight; the other is a prisoner of the throne. She smells of rain and old parchment; he smells of cold sandalwood and gunpowder. When the Good Girl of the Stage meets the Devil, the world will realize their greatest mistake: assuming she was the one who needed saving.
“She is a blade wrapped in silk; he is a monster carved from stone. Two different hells, forged in the same fire.”
