Black Orchids Cry Gold (The Velvet Table) Hardcover – December 22, 2025

Power is inherited.Silence is enforced.Gold rooms always comes at a cost.Sadira Abadi grew up inside a system that rewards control and punishes weakness. She knows how to read a room and hold her place in it. In her world, loyalty is currency. Reputation is protection—and both can be taken overnight.When a death fractures the Table—the secret society she's a part of—the balance shifts. At the center of it is Dominick Nerano—the new Throne of the Velvet Table. He doesn’t ask for loyalty. He expects it. What builds between them isn’t easy to define, but it isn’t something either of them can ignore.The deeper Sadira goes, the harder it becomes to look away from what holds their world together. Systems that don’t break—they assimilate. Once you see the ledger, you can’t unsee your sins.Black Orchids Cry Gold is a gothic elite dynasty adult romance with political intrigue about legacy, control, and the cost of staying where you were born to belong. Read more