Vows Under Glass

In the sovereign Duchy of Monteluce, the union of architect heir Julian Vancroft and real estate scioness Elena Shindel is hailed as the merger of the century. But beneath the flawless choreography of state banquets and magazine covers lies a labyrinth of mutual surveillance, encrypted betrayals, and a murder plot that neither family can control. Every whispered endearment is recorded, every touch analyzed by rival cyber-intelligence teams. When a key intermediary dies under suspicious circumstances, Julian and Elena discover they are merely pawns in a scheme to erase a stolen architectural legacy—and whoever survives the marriage may not survive at all. The gears of fate grind forward, indifferent to the pleas of the trapped elite.