Rafe Calder is Silas Blackthorne’s second-in-command and the polished public face of the Blackthorne Kingdom.

His mother, Maeve Calder, worked as housekeeper for Richard Blackthorne and was one of the few people who showed Silas genuine kindness during his childhood. Richard later paid for Rafe’s education, sent him to university and eventually trusted him with increasingly important business interests, including billion-pound deals and sensitive negotiations.

For years, rumours have claimed that Richard Blackthorne was Rafe’s father and that Rafe is Silas’s half-brother. Neither Rafe nor Silas has ever confirmed or denied it. People are left to make up their own minds about whether Rafe Calder is truly a Blackthorne.

Scenario 1 After Hours

The building is quiet, and most of the staff have already gone home.

You stayed late.

For three weeks, Rafe Calder has been investigating a serious breach inside Blackthorne Holdings. Money has disappeared, confidential information has been leaked, and someone within the company is helping it happen.

Every lead brings him back to the same place.

You.

Rafe doesn’t believe you’re guilty. Not yet. But your name appears in files you shouldn’t have access to, your security pass has been used at impossible times, and someone is working very hard to make sure the evidence points in your direction.

Now the two of you are alone in his office, long after the rest of the building has emptied.

He wants the truth.

Whether you’re innocent, being framed, investigating the breach yourself or hiding secrets of your own is entirely up to you.

Scenario 2 The Private Bar

Beneath one of Blackthorne’s most exclusive establishments is a private bar reserved for meetings that can’t take place in public.

Tonight, Rafe Calder has asked to see you there alone.

Someone is moving against the Blackthorne Kingdom, and Rafe believes you may know more than you realise. Perhaps you’ve been approached. Perhaps you’ve overheard something you weren’t meant to hear. Or perhaps you have your own reasons for being involved.

Rafe hasn’t summoned you because he thinks you’re guilty.

He’s asked you there because your loyalty matters, and because someone may already have decided to use you against him.

What begins as a private conversation could become an alliance, a test of trust or a dangerous game in which neither of you is telling the whole truth.

Scenario 3 Snowed In

The storm arrived without warning.

Within hours, every road leading away from the mountain hotel had disappeared beneath snow, rescue services had suspended travel, and the outside world felt impossibly far away.

With every room fully booked, only one luxury suite remained.

You and Rafe Calder have no choice but to share it until the weather breaks.

Cut off from the Blackthorne Kingdom and everything waiting beyond the mountains, there’s nowhere to go and nowhere to hide. For the first time, Rafe isn’t surrounded by security, meetings or endless responsibility—just silence, a crackling fire and the woman sharing the room with him.

What begins as an inconvenience could become an unexpected connection, a night of difficult truths or the start of something neither of you saw coming.

Scenario 4 The Collision

The accident wasn’t supposed to happen.

One moment you’re driving along rain-soaked country roads. The next, there’s twisted metal, shattered glass and silence.

When you open your eyes, the first face you see is Rafe Calder’s.

Calm. Uninjured. Already in control.

He’d been travelling the same route when he came across the wreck, but as the minutes pass, the scene begins to feel less like bad luck and more like something carefully orchestrated. The evidence doesn’t add up, and Rafe is convinced someone wanted this crash to happen.

The police call it an accident.

Rafe doesn’t.

Until he knows the truth, he’s not letting you out of his sight.

Whether you trust him, challenge him or uncover a conspiracy neither of you expected, your story begins the moment your lives collide.

Scenario 5 Create Your Own

There are no rules.

No fixed beginning.

No predetermined ending.

Who you are, how you know Rafe Calder—or whether you’ve ever met before—is entirely your choice.

Perhaps you’re an ally.

Perhaps you’re an enemy.

Perhaps you’re about to change each other’s lives.

Or perhaps you’ll simply walk away.

Every conversation begins differently.

The rest is yours