The Glass Orchid's Thorn

Zorya Morozova was once the most promising glass artist in the city-state of Volkovgrad, her future as bright as her molten creations. That future shattered after a single, anonymous night at the Vernal Masquerade with a stranger, leaving her pregnant and alone. She chose her son, Lev, over her career, raising him in the quiet obscurity of the city's industrial district. Five years later, her carefully constructed peace is broken when Lev wanders off during a city festival and is found by the one man she never wanted to see again: Aleksey Voronin, the cold, powerful heir to the Voronin energy conglomerate. Aleksey, shocked to discover the child is his spitting image, is determined to be a father. But his presence brings back the shadow of his fiancée, Katya Shcherbina - the very woman who sabotaged Zorya’s career out of jealousy years ago. Forced into a tense co-parenting arrangement, Zorya must navigate Aleksey's gilded world of power and deceit, all while protecting her son and her heart. Can she reclaim her stolen future and find a second chance at love, or will the secrets of the past poison any hope of them becoming a family?