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Kayla Faye has spent years waiting for the right moment to tell her childhood best friend how she truly feels. She waited through tenth grade when he started avoiding her. She waited through eleventh grade when he left for college without saying goodbye. She even waited until the day before her graduation, convincing herself she was finally ready.

What she wasn't ready for was finding out Zayn Ponteris had been dead the entire time.

The grief shatters something inside her. And before anyone can stop it, Kayla does something no sorceress should be able to do—she travels back in time.

Suddenly she's fifteen again, standing at their end of year formal, with Zayn alive and right in front of her, completely unaware that in another timeline she watched his parents mourn him.

This time, Kayla is determined to save him. Except nothing goes according to plan.

Zayn has a girlfriend. And the closer Kayla gets to changing his fate, the more she realizes her powers are bigger and more dangerous than she ever imagined.

The supernatural world is closing in. The clock is running out. And the one person standing between Kayla and everything hunting her is the same boy she keeps bending time to protect.

Kayla has no idea what's in store for her.

Because when you bend time, fate bends back.

I boarded "The Elysium"—a massive luxury cruise ship that serves as a floating kingdom for the world's most dangerous elite.

God, I was so naive. I thought this was just another job, another way to earn money for Lira's treatment. I had no idea I was walking into hell disguised as paradise.

This wasn't just any vessel: it was an untouchable sanctuary in international waters where billionaires, arms dealers, and shadow government officials gathered to conduct business beyond any nation's laws.

But within hours, I was framed for murdering a guest.

Facing execution or worse, I signed a degrading contract with the ship's Sovereign. Ninety days as Silas Voss's collared vassal—his personal physician and plaything.

Every night I planned, every day I gathered intelligence, clinging to the hope that I could still save myself.

When my first escape failed, Silas's punishment was swift and devastating—he forced me to perform oral sex on him in front of hundreds of guests at the Elysian Gala.

The humiliation was so complete, so absolute, that I wanted to die right there on that stage. I was on my knees like a whore while they all watched and cheered.

Broken and desperate, I face an impossible choice: accept I fate as Silas's property or risk everything on one final, deadly escape attempt.

⚠MATURE READERS ONLY⚠ DARK ROMANCE ⚠

She was once the cherished daughter of a respected professor, but now, she is nothing more than a shadow in the city-poor, struggling, and alone. Whispers follow her wherever she goes. Beauty like hers, they say, is a curse for a girl without power. They assume she'll do anything for money.

But she is fire, untamed and unbroken.

The university, once her father's legacy, is now under the control of a powerful man-a man who watches her with a cruel smile, waiting for the moment she will break. He holds the strings to her fate, dragging her into a silent war where wealth and control always win.

Then, he returns.

The boy who once played by her side, the boy who vanished the night of the tragedy, is back-no longer a friend, no longer the boy she knew. Now, he stands at the front of the lecture hall, wearing the title of Professor. His cold, unreadable eyes lock onto hers. His touch lingers like a ghost from the past.

He helps her in the shadows, yet she feels his presence in every downfall she faces. Does he still hold the warmth of their past, or has he returned only to watch her drown?

As secrets unravel and desires ignite, she must decide-fight against the power that seeks to destroy her, or surrender to the darkness lurking within the man she once called her own.