Vows Written in Ash

When twenty-three-year-old Seraphina Vale returns to the rain-choked city of Blackthorne for her father’s funeral, she expects grief, debt, and scandal. She does not expect to inherit his most dangerous secret: a blood-signed contract promising her hand in marriage to Lucien Crowe, the ruthless heir to the Crowe crime empire and the boy she once loved before he vanished beneath accusations of murder.

Lucien is no longer the wounded seventeen-year-old who kissed her in the ruins of the old cathedral. He is cold silk, sharp knives, and absolute control—and he intends to use their marriage to claim the one thing Seraphina’s father stole from his family. But Seraphina has learned to survive monsters by becoming unreadable, and she refuses to be another pawn in Blackthorne’s gilded underworld.

As desire turns into a battlefield and buried betrayals claw their way into the light, Seraphina discovers her father’s death was no accident—and Lucien may be the only man capable of protecting her from the truth.