Vows Written in Ash

When heiress Seraphina Vale is dragged from her father’s funeral into a marriage contract signed in blood, she learns the groom is Lucian Blackthorne—the ruthless lord of a criminal dynasty blamed for her mother’s death. Cold, beautiful, and feared across the rain-soaked city of Thornwick, Lucian offers her a choice that is no choice at all: marry him by midnight, or watch her younger brother vanish into the debts her father left behind.

Seraphina enters Blackthorne House determined to survive the husband who treats tenderness like a weakness and secrets like currency. But Lucian’s cruelty hides fractures, and his obsession with protecting her feels dangerously close to devotion. As desire becomes a battlefield and enemies circle their forced union, Seraphina discovers her family’s legacy is built on betrayal—and Lucian may not be the monster who destroyed her life, but the only man willing to burn the truth out of the dark.