Vows in the Black Chapel

When cathedral restorer Seraphina Vale discovers a bloodstained ledger hidden behind a saint’s ruined face, she learns her dead father owed a debt to the most feared family in Blackwater: the Ravenscrofts, old-money aristocrats who rule the city’s courts, docks, and secrets. To keep her younger sister from becoming collateral, Seraphina accepts an arranged marriage to Lucian Ravenscroft, the cold, beautiful heir known for destroying anyone who betrays him. Their wedding takes place at midnight in the family’s abandoned chapel, beneath stained glass that seems to watch them burn.

Lucian expects a frightened pawn. Instead, he finds a woman who meets his cruelty with defiance and his silence with dangerous curiosity. But the deeper Seraphina is pulled into his world of masked galas, locked rooms, and whispered murders, the more she suspects her marriage is not punishment, but protection. Lucian knows who really killed her father. Worse, he may have loved her long before she knew his name.