Velvet, Blood & Power

Twelve years ago, Lila watched her sister Mira get murdered—a gold hairpin through her throat, ordered by a general’s mistress. Today, Lila is that general’s top mistress, a dancer whose beauty hides a blade. She sleeps beside her family’s destroyer, Julian Ashford, waiting for the perfect kill. But on the brink of revenge, she discovers the impossible: Mira loved this man.