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The city buzzed beneath the morning haze. Traffic screamed. Horns spat fury. But all of it was drowned in Isabella's head by the echo of one sentence:
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Chapter One: The Fall of the Golden House “Isabella! The press is at the gate again!” Her brother Angus burst through the long hallway with the urgency of a child who’d seen war. Isabella looked up from her notebook, blinking away the numbers she had been analyzing—figures from her father's dwindling steel business.
