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Borrowed Hearts, Stolen Control
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 492
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He was never supposed to lose control.
She was never supposed to become the one thing the empire could not contain.
Alexander Blackwell has spent his life inside a world built on money, power, and perfectly managed lies. But when old bloodlines, hidden inheritance routes, and buried betrayals begin to surface, control stops being a strategy and becomes a war. One that is no longer confined to boardrooms, sealed archives, or whispered family history.
Isabella Laurent is no longer standing near the truth. She is inside it.
As the Blackwell empire turns more vicious, Alexander and Izzy are pulled deeper into a battle where love is dangerous, loyalty is weaponized, and every revelation carries a cost. Elias changes everything. Julian Cross becomes more useful and more poisonous. Victoria Blackwell remains as unreadable as ever. And the closer Alexander and Izzy get to the truth, the clearer it becomes that this family was willing to destroy its own blood to protect the wrong ending.
Now their bond is no longer private. It is political. Visible. Explosive.
In a world built on control, borrowed hearts may be the most dangerous weakness of all.
Borrowed Hearts, Stolen Control is Book Five in the Empire of Secrets series, a bingeable billionaire romance suspense full of forbidden attraction, family secrets, power struggles, emotional tension, and high-stakes twists.
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