Rival Hearts (Terms of Desire)

By Scarlett Sinclair

Three rules. Never trust a Whitmore. Never forget what they did. Never let a Whitmore touch you.

Bianca Castellane has kept all three for twenty-eight years. She's her family's ghost, the one they send when a problem needs to disappear, and she has never once let her guard down. So when her grandmother sends her into the Whitmores' masquerade gala to steal a single page from their founding ledger, it should be just another job.

Then a masked stranger catches her at a locked door. He sees through her forged name in eleven seconds. And on a terrace a hundred floors above the harbor, before either of them knows who the other is, he kisses her.

Roman Whitmore. The heir. The one man she was raised to hate.

One reckless night becomes a secret affair behind a blue door, in a city where the water takes the people who break the rules. But Bianca is still hunting that page. And buried in her family's archive is a photograph of a woman with her face, marked with an order never to speak of her.

Sixty years ago, someone killed to keep a Castellane and a Whitmore apart.

Now they're watching again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNMYYYNZ
• ISBN13: 9798163869220
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"