Overview

2. BOUND BY RUIN: A Secret Pregnancy Alpha Romance

In Saint Veyne, love is dangerous. A hidden heir is war.
Nico Mercer survived the kind of family power designed to erase men like him. Now he’s finally built something of his own: a life with purpose, a name that can’t be buried, and a future that almost feels safe.
Then one quiet clinic visit changes everything.
Because Nico isn’t just carrying a secret.
He’s carrying a truth powerful enough to rip open the city’s oldest bloodline war.

Cassian Voss knows what Saint Veyne does to weakness.
It weaponizes it. Sells it. Wraps it in law and calls it legacy.
And when rumors start moving through donor circles, medical networks, and family back channels, Cassian realizes the threat isn’t just scandal. It’s Nico’s body. Their future. Their child.
Now the man who built his life on control is about to go to war for the one thing he can’t afford to lose.
But Nico has spent too much of his life being turned into someone else’s claim.
He won’t survive another cage disguised as love.
And Cassian will have to prove that protecting him does not mean owning him.

As the city closes in, secrets become evidence, loyalty becomes risk, and one wrong move could turn their unborn future into a political weapon.
To survive what’s coming, they will have to choose each other in a world built to tear them apart.