Dark Romance • Gothic Mafia Romance • Arranged Marriage • Psychological Suspense • Enemies to Lovers
Short Book Description:
After the death of her father, Aurelisse Vale inherits nothing but ashes, enemies, and a blood debt that was never hers to pay. On the night of his funeral, the most feared man in the underworld arrives to collect.
Nero Everhart — ruthless king of a criminal empire and the last survivor of a massacre he blames on the Vale family — offers her a choice: marry him for one year or die before dawn.
Trapped inside his Gothic fortress, bound by a marriage built on vengeance and obsession, Aurelisse becomes both prisoner and prize in a dangerous war between two dynasties. But beneath Nero’s cold cruelty lies a dark hunger neither of them can control, and the deeper she digs into the past, the more she realizes her father’s betrayal may not be the truth at all.
In a world ruled by blood, power, and secrets, love may become the deadliest debt of all.