Velvet & Vice: The Vice of Fame

Cassandra Vale built an empire on desire, bestselling stories that turned fantasy into power and passion into profit. But when the love of her life dies tragically, the world expects her to disappear into grief.Instead, Cassandra signs the deal that brings her back into the spotlight: her bestselling phenomenon Crimson Thirst is being made into a major motion picture. And she’s not just attached as the author, she’s signed on as the film’s creative consultant, tasked with shaping the performance of the leading man playing a ruthless alpha CEO who commands every room he enters.Luca is everything Hollywood craves: magnetic, ambitious, and dangerously hungry for fame. He wants to be admired. Worshipped. Untouchable. But Cassandra sees what Luca doesn’t, fame can make you known without ever making you great. So she does what she was born to do.She trains him.Not just to act…but to own the role. To embody control so completely it becomes power, and to understand that true power isn’t dominance.It’s knowing when to surrender.But the closer Luca gets to becoming a leading man, the more he wants the one thing Cassandra refuses to give easily: herself. And as their professional bond turns intoxicating, the line between mentorship and obsession blurs, until secrets rise from the shadows of Hollywood, and the cost of fame becomes something far more personal than either of them imagined.But in Hollywood, every love story is a performance…until someone bleeds for real.And when the ending arrives, Cassandra does what she does best…she rewrites it.