The Glass archive

Power doesn't break. It buries. At an elite gala where influence is currency and tradition is law, Leo refuses to disappear. Bold, defiant, and impossible to control, they walk into a world designed to erase people like them-and collide with Julian Arthur, heir to a political dynasty built on silence. Their connection is instant. Volatile. Forbidden. But attraction is the least dangerous thing about them. When a single moment is twisted into a global scandal, Leo is recast as a threat, their life dismantled in real time. Julian is expected to contain the damage-to step back into line, to protect the family name, to let the truth disappear. Instead, he hesitates. And that hesitation sets everything on fire. Because buried beneath decades of power lies a secret no one was meant to uncover: a love story from 1984, destroyed by fear, preserved in letters that hold more than heartbreak. They contain proof-of manipulation, of suppression, of a system that decided which lives were worth saving... and which were not. As Leo and Julian race across cities and borders to uncover the past, they become targets of the same machine that erased it. Betrayal follows them. Surveillance closes in. And every step toward the truth threatens to destroy what they are to each other. In the end, they face an impossible choice: Expose the archive-and lose everything. Or let it remain buried-and lose themselves. Because some histories don't stay hidden. And some loves were never meant to survive.

Pagina's: 212, Paperback, Alastair Finch