

I grew up abroad. My mother feared I might marry a foreign man, so she arranged an engagement for me with a talented and handsome man in Flodon. She insisted that I return home to get engaged. I came back and started shopping for an engagement dress at a luxury boutique. I selected an off-white strapless gown and decided to try it on. Suddenly, a woman nearby glanced at the dress in my hand and told the saleswoman, “That’s a unique design. Let me try it.” The saleswoman immediately yanked it out of my hands. I protested indignantly, “Excuse me, I was here first. Don’t you understand the principle of ‘first come, first served’? Or do you just not care about common decency?” The woman scoffed and retorted, “This dress costs $188,000. Do you really think a broke nobody like you can even afford it? “I’m Lucas Goodwin’s sister in all but blood. He’s the chairman of Goodwin’s Group. In Flodon, the Goodwin family sets the rules.” What a coincidence! Lucas Goodwin was my fiance! I immediately called him and said, “Hey, your ‘sister in all but blood’ just stole my engagement dress. Do something about it.”

In Havenport, Xavier Shane has always been untouchable, shielded by his lawyer wife Zoey Gold, his fighter childhood friend Sarah Penn, and his brilliant younger sister Lydia Shane. But on his 29th birthday, his world shatters when Lydia is brutally assaulted in a dark alley and dies. The real blow comes in court, when Zoey stands for the killer, and Sarah forces Xavier to sign a settlement. Betrayed by the two women he trusted most, Xavier turns to the last thing his grandmother left him—a music box with a mysterious number. The moment he makes that call, the pampered prince starts to become something far more dangerous.

Year 3610, ten years after the great interstellar war. Space pirates and Void forces plague the galaxy. Thorne, former Star Marshal and weary of war, lives incognito on Neon Star, running a quiet bar with Ileah, heir of the Mogul clan. But Ileah’s broken engagement offends the Abyss family, and the Shadow of the Void covets her rare healing ability. Enemies close in. Thorne sheds his disguise, defeats the Abyss heir and a Void squad leader, and returns with Ileah to the Eight Great Clans. Lord Regan of Abyss and Void Commander Dexter strike back. Thorne wields lightning, spatial arts, and nanotech armor to crush them, uniting the Eight Clans to destroy the Shadow of the Void. Yet when the battle ends, an alien claw emerges from a deep-space rift — a new cosmic crisis begins.