Merciless Blood Vow

I married my enemy to end a war. He married me to find a killer.

For seven years I blamed the Santoro family for my brother's death. Now, to stop a war that would bury my youngest cousins, I'm walking down the aisle toward the man at the head of it - Rafaele Santoro, king of the port of Naples, all cold eyes and colder vows.

I set my conditions in writing: separate rooms. My pharmacy stays mine. No heirs for their peace.

He signed all of them without blinking. Then he added one condition of his own, in black ink, pressed hard enough to scar the paper:

Never lie to me.

I planned to enter his house as a bride and leave with the truth about my brother. I didn't plan on the assassins who keep missing him - or the poison meant for my cup that he drank instead. I didn't plan on the two of us hunting the same ghost through both our families' secrets.

And I didn't plan on this: somewhere between the vows we didn't mean and the enemies we can't see, the most dangerous man in Naples started keeping my heart in rhythm.

Someone spent seven years writing our families into a war.

They should never have let us marry. Because my husband kills for the people he loves - and I never, ever get the dosage wrong.

MERCILESS BLOOD VOW is book 1 of Kings of Naples - interconnected standalone mafia romances with real Italian settings, slow-burn heat, hard-won HEAs, and suspense plots that play for keeps. Arranged marriage. Enemies to lovers. He falls first. Touch her and die.

For readers 18+: contains violence, peril, and steamy scenes. No cliffhanger on the love story - the couple's HEA is guaranteed. The series mystery continues in Book 2, SAVAGE SHIELD.