Introduction
IVY & IRON: THE PHOENIX GAMBIT A Novel by Noura Vesper
Listen, darling, and listen close.
This is not a love story. It is a autopsy. A reckoning. A match struck in a cathedral of gasoline.
You remember them, don’t you?The scholarship girl with a ghost in her blood. The ice prince with empire in his bones. They crashed into each other with the force of a verdict, and they burned their gilded worlds to the ground for the terrible, glorious crime of choosing each other.
Think it’s over? Baby, the fire is just getting started.
Welcome to the after.
After you’ve burned your life to the ground.
After the world has branded you a villain.
After the only person left who knows your soul is the one who helped you break it.
You think you know them— You don’t.
This is the Phoenix Gambit. The stakes are forever. Place your bets.
For those who like their romance with poison in the kiss, their academia drenched in shadow, and their thrillers with a heart that still beats... bloody, broken, and brutally alive.
— N.V.
(P.S. Don’t forget to read the first book for a smoother and more comprehensive reading experience)
