Lured By Touch

<p><strong>Velvet Crimes</strong> is a literary thriller that unravels the tension between image and identity power and complicity art and erasure.</p><p>Jordyn West has mastered the architecture of survival. A fashion visionary with a carefully curated past she moves through the world with precision-until anonymous messages and a resurrected podcast threaten to expose the truths she buried in silk and silence. At the heart of the unraveling is Carter Rhine a man both myth and memory whose reappearance blurs the line between artist and abuser performance and possession. As Jordyn navigates a world where justice is rarely spoken aloud-and rarely meant for women like her-she must decide what it costs to keep a life intact and what might be reclaimed by letting it fall apart.</p><p>Set against a backdrop of high fashion media spectacle and the quiet violence of reputation <strong>Velvet Crimes</strong> is a haunting exploration of female agency cultural complicity and the shadows we cast in the name of beauty love and survival.</p><p><em>Some truths don't shatter-they unravel thread by velvet thread.</em></p>