The Vow Beneath Blackwater

When heiress Elara Vale is forced into marriage with Roman Blackthorne, the ruthless heir to a crime dynasty disguised as old-money nobility, she expects a gilded cage. What she doesn’t expect is the terrifying tenderness beneath his brutality—or the way his touch feels like both punishment and salvation. Roman is cold, controlling, and feared by every family that rules Blackwater Bay, but from the moment Elara walks down the aisle, he makes one thing clear: she may hate him, but no one else is allowed to harm her.

Elara enters the Blackthorne estate determined to survive, uncover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance, and destroy the man who bought her life with a signature. But the house is full of locked rooms, bloodstained portraits, and whispers that Roman’s first fiancée didn’t run away—she was buried beneath the cliffs. As enemies close in and desire turns dangerously intimate, Elara discovers her marriage is not the trap she feared. It is the key to a secret powerful enough to burn both their families alive.