When The City Sleeps

One dead man. A secret that was never meant to survive the night.By day, Toronto belongs to the Laurents and the Baptistes. Their companies shape the skyline, and their feud has shaped everything else. Nobody remembers exactly how it started. Everyone knows never to ask.By night, Jayden Laurent is just a DJ in a dark club, hiding from a name he never chose. Then a woman in a red dress looks up from the crowd, and she isn't there to dance. Amara Baptiste has spent her whole life being told what her family's enemies are capable of. She has no idea that the first person to make her feel free is one of them.What begins as a forbidden romance becomes something far more dangerous. An old box of photographs. A car accident that was far too clean. A ledger no one was supposed to find. Behind the feud lies the death of Gabriel Laurent, twenty-two years ago, and a hidden organization called Northstar that has been quietly deciding the fate of both families ever since.As Jayden and Amara dig deeper, the people they trust begin to lie. Fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters all knew pieces of the truth, and each protected a different version of it. Every answer they find leads to a darker question. The one they can't stop asking is the worst: how are the two of them connected?When the City Sleeps is a slow-burn romantic suspense novel of buried secrets, shifting loyalties and the cost of love in a world built on lies. Its twenty-nine chapters run from one midnight to the next, and it ends on a twist you won't see coming.For readers who love enemies-to-lovers romance, family sagas with dark secrets, and twists that make you go back and reread the first chapter.