The Billionaire's Stolen Muse
(2026)(The first book in the Blindfolded Empire series)
A novel by Zoe Sinclair
She didn't know the painting was stolen.
She didn't know the man who bought it ran New York's most dangerous criminal syndicate.
She didn't know she was about to become the most valuable asset in a world she'd never been invited into.
Nova Sinclair is a twenty-six-year-old Brooklyn artist living below the poverty line and painting the truest work of her generation on the walls of an apartment she can barely afford. When one of her paintings surfaces at a Christie's auction under a name that isn't hers, she doesn't get an explanation.
She gets an arrangement.
Kade Voss is the Voss Syndicate's enforcer — cold, precise, and the most controlled man in any room he enters. He doesn't make mistakes. Acquiring Nova was not a mistake. What happens next is something his twenty years of professional coldness was never designed for.
Riven Song is the art consultant managing Nova's stolen attribution — except he's not an art consultant. He's a Jang Collective operative deployed to monitor the situation, and the situation has become significantly more complicated than his briefing suggested. He has been writing about Nova in a private notebook since the second week. In Korean. He has not examined why.
Luca De Marco is the heir to a criminal empire with impeccable taste, eleven rooms built for a person who hadn't arrived yet, and a secret that will take three books to fully reckon with.
Zane Cross owns Obsidian, runs the grey territory between every criminal organization in the city, and has been watching Nova the way you watch something that is going to change everything — with the specific attention of someone who knows the change is coming and cannot stop it.
Nova is given a blindfold and a set of rules.
She keeps the blindfold.
She rewrites the rules.
She didn't know the man who bought it ran New York's most dangerous criminal syndicate.
She didn't know she was about to become the most valuable asset in a world she'd never been invited into.
Nova Sinclair is a twenty-six-year-old Brooklyn artist living below the poverty line and painting the truest work of her generation on the walls of an apartment she can barely afford. When one of her paintings surfaces at a Christie's auction under a name that isn't hers, she doesn't get an explanation.
She gets an arrangement.
Kade Voss is the Voss Syndicate's enforcer — cold, precise, and the most controlled man in any room he enters. He doesn't make mistakes. Acquiring Nova was not a mistake. What happens next is something his twenty years of professional coldness was never designed for.
Riven Song is the art consultant managing Nova's stolen attribution — except he's not an art consultant. He's a Jang Collective operative deployed to monitor the situation, and the situation has become significantly more complicated than his briefing suggested. He has been writing about Nova in a private notebook since the second week. In Korean. He has not examined why.
Luca De Marco is the heir to a criminal empire with impeccable taste, eleven rooms built for a person who hadn't arrived yet, and a secret that will take three books to fully reckon with.
Zane Cross owns Obsidian, runs the grey territory between every criminal organization in the city, and has been watching Nova the way you watch something that is going to change everything — with the specific attention of someone who knows the change is coming and cannot stop it.
Nova is given a blindfold and a set of rules.
She keeps the blindfold.
She rewrites the rules.
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