The Midnight Crown

By Kierra Crosby

She's used to being the punchline. He's ready to burn down the theater.

Journee Doyle has perfected the art of invisibility. As a plus-size woman in a world obsessed with size zero, she knows her role: be the funny friend, the hard worker, and the one who takes every insult with a smile. By day, she's a ghost. By night, she waits tables at the prestigious Nocturne Crown Hotel, serving Manhattan's elite while trying to forget she exists.

Until the night she can't.

A backhanded compliment from a billionaire guest and a "clumsy" spill of red wine by a jealous waitress leave Journee humiliated in a room full of people who refuse to look her in the eye. She flees, thinking it's just another scar to hide.

She's wrong. Someone was looking.

Andr s Morales-the elusive, ruthless CEO of the Nocturne Crown empire. A man who rules New York from the shadows. To him, Journee isn't invisible. She is inevitable.

Andr s saw the insult. He saw the tears she tried to hide. And when he rewinds the security tape, his fascination snaps into a dark, primal obsession. He doesn't just want to comfort her; he wants to ruin anyone who ever made her feel small.

When a custom gown arrives at her doorstep, sent to an unlisted address, Journee realizes this is no fairy tale. It's a hunt. She thinks he's playing a cruel game. She thinks a man like him could never want a woman like her. So she runs.

But she's forgetting one thing: Andr s Morales owns the city. And he loves a chase.

He doesn't want her to fit into his world. He's reshaping the world to fit her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVTW7JQW
• ISBN13: 9798254641186
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"