Tessa Rowan has always been the steady one—steadily employed, nicely engaged, perfectly predictable. Until the night she finds her fiancé with someone else, which breaks her heart and the life she had planned. Tessa is broken and sick of being "the good girl," so she lets her best friend drag her to Halo, the most famous secret club in the city. There, no one knows her name, and she can be careless for the first time in her life. That's where she meets Dorian Blackwell, the nighttime king who owns half the city after midnight and is very attractive. He’s addictive. Not touchable. He is known as "The One-Week King" because he has never been with a woman for more than seven days. Tessa wants a second chance. Dorian wants something else to do. One night. Not any strings attached. No names. No second round. But when Dorian wakes up to an empty bed—and sees Tessa is gone, along with his diamond-encrusted signet ring, the one thing he never lets out of his sight— he isn’t just irritated. He’s fixated. No woman has ever slipped away first. No woman has ever breached his high walls. And absolutely no woman has ever walked out with something strong enough to risk his entire empire. For Dorian, the hunt becomes personal. Two years later, fate throws Tessa back into his orbit—no longer the innocent woman he remembers, but smarter, guarded… and keeping a secret that could bring him to his knees. A secret with bright eyes, dimples, and Dorian Blackwell’s obvious frown. Tessa will do anything to protect her child—especially from the guy who could claim them with a single word. Dorian wants everything she thinks she got away with— his ring, his night, and his family. She stole more than the King’s crown. She stole his child. And Dorian Blackwell has never lost anything he meant to keep. This time, he isn’t just playing to win. He’s playing for his legacy… and the woman who accidentally became part of it.Tessa Rowan has always been the steady one—steadily employed, nicely engaged, perfectly predictable. Until the night she finds her fiancé with someone else, which breaks her heart and the life she had planned. Tessa is broken and sick of being "the good girl," so she lets her best friend drag her to Halo, the most famous secret club in the city. There, no one knows her name, and she can be careless for the first time in her life. That's where she meets Dorian Blackwell, the nighttime king who owns half the city after midnight and is very attractive. He’s addictive. Not touchable. He is known as "The One-Week King" because he has never been with a woman for more than seven days. Tessa wants a second chance. Dorian wants something else to do. One night. Not any strings attached. No names. No second round. But when Dorian wakes up to an empty bed—and sees Tessa is gone, along with his diamond-encrusted signet ring, the one thing he never lets out of his sight— he isn’t just irritated. He’s fixated. No woman has ever slipped away first. No woman has ever breached his high walls. And absolutely no woman has ever walked out with something strong enough to risk his entire empire. For Dorian, the hunt becomes personal. Two years later, fate throws Tessa back into his orbit—no longer the innocent woman he remembers, but smarter, guarded… and keeping a secret that could bring him to his knees. A secret with bright eyes, dimples, and Dorian Blackwell’s obvious frown. Tessa will do anything to protect her child—especially from the guy who could claim them with a single word. Dorian wants everything she thinks she got away with— his ring, his night, and his family. She stole more than the King’s crown. She stole his child. And Dorian Blackwell has never lost anything he meant to keep. This time, he isn’t just playing to win.
