Threads of Our Undoing

In the gilded, high-stakes world of the Neo-Victorian elite, Clara Vance is a master of illusion. Blessed with a unique, forbidden sensory empathy - the ability to physically feel the emotions and hidden desires of anyone she touches - she survives by selling high-society secrets to the highest bidder. But her carefully constructed facade crumbles when she is blackmailed into marrying Julian Vance, her family's bitterest rival and a ruthless tycoon rumored to have murdered his late wife. Julian is a man wrapped in emotional static; when Clara touches him, she feels only a terrifying, empty void. As political conspiracies threaten to tear their city apart, Clara must play the dutiful wife while investigating her husband's dark past. But as the dangerous proximity sparks an intense, unpredictable passion, Clara faces a lethal dilemma: can she trust the man whose cold heart she cannot read, or will her own desperate hunger for genuine connection be her ultimate downfall?