At St. Ives University, women are rare, men are ranked, and every decision is a power play. Make the right move and you’re crowned. The wrong one? You’re done. Beatriz Cruz wasn’t raised for this world, but she’s been accepted in. Armed with a scholarship, Toronto grit, and a name everyone keeps mispronouncing, she’s determined to earn her place and prove she belongs. Then Gage King looks at her like she already does. With him. Heir to one of the country’s most powerful financial empires, authority isn’t something he wears. It’s something he is. Born into legacy, forged into steel, Gage is control made flesh…and the cousin of Bea’s new housemate. In a world where every unclaimed woman is a prize—and every man knows how to play the game—Bea needs to learn. Fast. Because he’s already making moves. A glance that marks her. A coat that silences the room. A code that opens more than his penthouse door: It unlocks the part of her that no one’s ever touched. And when she finally takes a step toward him? He shows her exactly what it means to be chosen by a man who doesn’t let go. Because in the United Republic of Westhaven, being chosen isn’t the end. It’s just the beginning.

He chose her. Now she has to choose his world. Beatriz Cruz has earned her place at St. Ives and the love of Gage King. But the United Republic of Westhaven doesn’t do casual. It measures proximity, and expects commitment. Especially from the woman standing beside a King. Stepping fully into Gage’s world means accepting a life that no longer bends around her choices. In public, Gage is the picture of elegant control. In private, he knows exactly how to unravel her, and he doesn’t do anything halfway. Bea discovers he has put his future on hold for her, and that pause is ending. He’s being called forward into the life he was born for, and he wants her by his side. As the moment to decide closes in, someone who has always been there becomes harder to dismiss. Loving Gage King was never going to be simple. Staying with him might cost her everything. Stay With Me is Book 2 of the Crown or Fire series. Best read after Book 1, Choose Me. The story continues in Book 3, Burn With Me.

He’s been waiting for her for years. And this time, he’s not stepping aside. Rafael Griffin is the green-eyed billionaire who keeps showing up: at her gym, at her door, in every place Beatriz Cruz is trying to move on. He gives her space to heal. She calls it friendship. He lets her...for now. Because Rafael doesn’t do halfway. Especiallynot with her. It starts small. A look across a crowded room that lingers too long. A hand held out for a dance she shouldn’t accept, but does. When her her past walks in, she moves without thinking—straight behind him. Like her body already knows where she’s safe. And then he crosses a gala floor and tells her, low and certain, to stop putting another man between them. It stops feeling like friendship and becomes inevitable. Rafael has always known how this ends. Bea is just the last one to admit it. And once she lets him in…there’s no version of this where he lets her go. Book 3 of the Crown or Fire series. Can be read from here, but best enjoyed in order after Book 1 Choose Me and Book 2 Stay With Me. Continues in Book 4, Bind Me, due for release in May 2026.

She said yes. Now the law will make her his. Beatriz Cruz thought the hardest part of marrying Rafael Griffin would be surviving ten weeks of abstinence until the wedding. She was wrong. In the United Republic of Westhaven, marriage doesn’t begin with love. It begins with power. The moment she becomes his wife, he doesn’t just take her name. He gains the final say over her future, her safety, her freedom. And Rafael Griffin is not a man who gives up control once something belongs to him. Behind closed doors, he gives her everything: devotion that borders on obsession, a hunger that never softens, a love powerful enough to consume her whole. But marriage in Westhaven was never going to stay private. When intimate photos surface that threaten to turn Bea into a scandalous headline, she has to decide whether she can trust one of the most powerful men in the country to stand beside her instead of above her. Loving Rafael was the easy part. Learning what it means to be his wife is something else entirely. Bind Me is the explosive final installment in the Crown or Fire series, a slow-burn billionaire romance where love and power are two sides of the same coin...and the rules change once the vows are spoken.