Sunset of Forbidden Hearts

Scarlett Reeves was once the most dazzling mixed-race socialite on New York's Upper East Side. After her father's business empire collapsed, she bet all her chips on her marriage to her fiancé Julian Blackwell. On the eve of the wedding, she pushed open the door of the hotel suite and found Julian entangled naked with her best friend Bianca on the white bedsheets; three years of love shattered into glass shards in five seconds.

She smashed the engagement diamond ring into the cheater's face, ran barefoot into the torrential rain, stumbled into a neon-lit bar, and downed four shots of tequila. A strange man with gray eyes sat down beside her—no comfort, no lustful glances, just a glass of water and a cold joke. When dawn broke, she woke up in an unfamiliar room, only to find that this man was Adrian Blackwell III, Julian's own uncle and the real shadow ruler of the Blackwell family.

Adrian put forward a crazy deal: get married in a flash within seventy-two hours, she would re-enter the Blackwell family dinner table as his aunt to help him seize power within the family, and after a year she could get a clean divorce plus enough money to rebuild her father's business. Scarlett thought she was manipulating the game, until she discovered that Adrian's approach to her was no accident—his former fiancée Catherine had died ten years ago in a carefully faked car accident, and the person who killed Catherine was hiding inside the Blackwell family. The honey coffee at three in the morni