Thrown to the Shadows

is the first book in the Crowns of the Shadow Saga: He was born to inherit an empire, then left to die in an alley. Bruce (Mathéo) DuPont was stolen from his family the night he was born; an heir to one of Europe's most powerful business empires, then lost to the shadows of Italy. Adopted by an engineer and forged in the quiet resilience of the 1990s, he grows into a visionary inventor whose genius draws him back to Paris, the city that once abandoned him. There, between ambition and betrayal, he uncovers the truth of his bloodline and the brothers who became his rivals. Spanning from the fall of the old European elite to the ruthless corporate empires of the 21st century, Thrown to the Shadows begins the Crowns of the Shadow Saga, a story of stolen legacies, dangerous loyalties, and one man's rise from the forgotten son to the name that could shatter an empire.