The Legacy of the Split

Raised apart by a plan their parents drafted before they were born, twins Aria and Silas have lived opposite lives. Aria stayed in the city as a pampered heiress, while Silas was sent to a remote farm with their mother, hardened by years of manual labor. When Silas earns a place at a top-tier university, their father finally comes to collect him and brings him home to the Sterling estate.

Nothing about the reunion is warm. Silas is thrust into a world of galas, grooming classes and social etiquette he never asked for, judged by his calloused hands and his silence. His parents see only a future heir; Aria sees a brother treated as a project, and herself as a pawn to be traded into the Blackwood family.

As the estate closes in around him, Silas retreats further into himself, and Aria begins to wonder what their parents' grand experiment has truly cost them both.