I had everything, a family, safety, comfort, I was the heiress to my fathers empire, but that all came burning down, leaving me scarred and alone. If that wasn't enough, the lies started coming to the surface. The betrayal blindsided me and I was left broken and lying on the ground of my own personal hell. My enemies were now lined up, waiting for the chance to make me bleed. My former friends had their hands wrapped around my throat, trying to snuff out the last of my family's bloodline, all for revenge.

A group of friends go out to a party on New Year's Eve and do what we've all done: make resolutions. But a resolution is a vow, a kind of spell cast on yourself for the next year. Whether you keep or not, the power of the words lingers and slowly impacts you. The resolutions of these friends are powerful, and whether they mean it or not, these vows have consequences reaching out over the year. Take Britney for example. A simple promise for more self-care could be taken a little too literally. Soon the girl can't stop touching herself, loving herself. And if there was a malignant force ...

When Elise Barnett, daughter of the duke of Beauris, stows away on a merchant vessel to scandalously elope with her elegant, refined, and much older art tutor, she thought she was on her way to a blissful island paradise. She could not have been more mistaken.

I didn’t know I’d risk everything to be with him. I thought he was the assistant football coach. I thought I would protect my teaching career from anything. I thought I could stay away from him. I thought wrong.

For three days, the doors to this luxe New York estate are thrown wide for anyone with a taste for the obscenely rich, the ultra-exclusive, and the once in a lifetime thrill of the forbidden: where nothing is off the table and everything and everyone can be had for the taking.