Queen of the Black House

By Jennifer Eve

She inherited an empire. He was sent to take it apart.

When Ivy Castellane's father is gunned down on the docks he ruled for thirty-one years, the Commission that governs Port Ellery's underworld doesn't hand her his empire - they put her on trial for it. Sixty days to prove she can hold what she's inherited, or watch it carved up among five families who've been waiting for exactly this excuse.

The Commission's chosen auditor is Dante Reyes: the coldest son of the family that's spent a decade trying to swallow the Castellane docks, sent to catalog her every weakness and write the report that ends her claim before it starts.

What he finds instead is a woman who built half of her father's empire before anyone gave her credit for it. A saboteur working from inside her own house. And a pull toward her he didn't authorize and can't afford.

As shipments vanish, captains turn up dead, and a bullet finds the stone six inches from where she's standing, Ivy and Dante forge an alliance neither of them trusts - one that becomes the only thing either of them has ever wanted more than power. But the truth about who's destroying her family is closer than either of them can bear to look, and finding it will cost Ivy the last piece of the man she thought she knew.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG7LYWD5
• ISBN13: 9798194401680
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"