Serpent's Kiss Series

LUCE

I came to Naples wearing another woman's name, another woman's past, and a wedding dress cut to hide a blade.

Thirty days under his roof. One wedding. One night.

Then I bury him, and walk away a widow.

He owns the port, the city, and every man who looks at me too long. He's tall and cold and inked in serpents from his wrists to his throat, and he watches me like he already knows why I'm here.

He can't. Nobody does.

But the door between our rooms has no lock, and every night it gets harder to remember what I came to do.

I've never failed a job. I've never wanted to.

DANTE

They sent me a bride to seal a peace.

She's beautiful. She's quiet. She cries on cue and lies like she was born to it.

She isn't the girl they promised me.

I should put her on a plane. I should put her in the sea. Instead I put my ring on her finger and keep her close, because someone in my own house is selling me, and sooner or later she'll lead me to him.

Then she kills for me in a dark alley, without a second's hesitation, and I stop pretending I'm only watching her.

She came here to kill me. Let her try. She's mine either way.

This is the first book in The Serpent's Kiss Series. Reading order:

Kiss of the Serpent.

Bite of the Serpent.

Crown of the Serpent.