Vows in Black Velvet

When violin prodigy Seraphina Vale returns to rain-soaked Blackthorne after her father’s suspicious death, she inherits more than a crumbling estate and a mountain of debt. Her father’s final will binds her to marry Lucian Ravenscroft, the ruthless heir to the city’s most powerful family—the same man rumored to have ruined her brother, bought judges, and buried enemies beneath the cathedral foundations.

Lucian is beautiful, cold, and impossible to refuse. He claims the marriage will protect her from men circling her inheritance, but every locked room in Ravenscroft House whispers otherwise. Seraphina discovers her father was investigating a secret society called the Velvet Order, and Lucian may be both its most dangerous weapon and its intended sacrifice.

As desire turns into obsession and hatred blurs into need, Seraphina must decide whether Lucian is her captor, her salvation, or the monster she was always meant to love. But in Blackthorne, vows are never just promises—they are blood contracts.