Vows Written in Ash

When twenty-four-year-old Seraphina Vale is dragged from her crumbling coastal estate to marry Damien Blackthorne, the ruthless heir to an empire built on nightclubs, offshore money, and whispered graves, she expects a gilded cage. What she doesn’t expect is a husband who knows every secret her family buried—including the truth behind her mother’s disappearance—and who seems determined to punish her for a crime she never committed.

Damien needs Seraphina’s name to secure control of the Blackthorne syndicate, but his bride is no obedient pawn. Beneath her silk gloves and practiced manners is a woman with a stolen identity, a dead girl’s passport, and a vendetta of her own. Their marriage becomes a battlefield of locked doors, dangerous bargains, and desire sharp enough to draw blood.

As rival families circle and old sins rise from the ashes, Seraphina discovers Damien may be the monster keeping her alive—or the one who ruined her first. In a house where love is leverage, surrender might be the deadliest rebellion.