Shadows in Chantilly: Secrets Bloom Beneath French Elegance

Elise lives behind the polished gates of Chantilly’s elite stables, where sleek thoroughbreds thunder past ancient trees and fortunes change in a heartbeat. Her days are quiet. Controlled. Her nights belong to Victor Laurent the powerful figure who keeps her wrapped in silk sheets and secrecy. What they share is hidden, intense, and never meant to exist in the open.

Then Elise finds the numbers that don’t add up.

Racing syndicates. Inflated horse deals. Money sliding through the sport like smoke. Victor isn’t just a kingmaker in international racing he’s washing criminal fortunes clean.

Suddenly every kiss feels different. Every promise sounds rehearsed. The man she craves is built on lies.

Fear tells her to run. Desire keeps pulling her back into his arms, into late nights that smell of leather tack and champagne.

As major races approach and dangerous partners circle closer, Elise is trapped between loyalty and survival. Victor’s charm is a soft cage. His love both shelter and threat. And the deeper she goes, the harder it is to tell where passion ends and control begins.

In a world where power always collects its debt, the most dangerous secret is the one she shares with him.

Will Elise walk away alive or disappear into Victor’s darkness?

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Each book in the Dark Reins series stands alone, revealing a new scandal born beneath the lights of a different legendary racetrack.

In the high-stakes world of international horse racing, every stride hides a secret and every win comes with a cost. From London’s royal circuits to the burning tracks of Dubai, power and desire race neck and neck beneath the roar of the crowd. Behind the silks and champagne lies something darker ambition laced with lust, loyalty tested by greed.

Dark Reins pulls back the curtain on the affairs and rivalries of those who live for victory and fall to temptation.

How far will they ride before the darkness takes the reins?

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