I Chose My Shadow, Lost My Heart

Love isn’t safe—not in a city where loyalty is currency and betrayal is the price of survival. Autumn Langley, the Mayor’s only daughter, rules the shadows as the Governor’s covert agent, but when she chooses Eli Warren—a boy with haunted eyes and a past soaked in blood—to be her protector, she invites danger and desire into her world. Their bond is forged through violence, secrets, and years of unspoken longing, but as politics turn deadly and old ghosts rise, Autumn must decide if she’ll sacrifice everything for the boy who swore to follow her to the end. When her loyalty is tested by the city’s most ruthless powerbroker, and love becomes a weapon, can she save Eli—or will the truth destroy them both? When the knives are drawn, who will survive the storm: the strategist, the shadow, or the heart that refused to surrender?