Vows Written in Ash

Seraphina Vale has spent seven years hiding behind a dead girl’s name, serving wine in the rain-slick underbelly of Blackthorne City while the world believes the last daughter of a ruined noble house was buried with her family. Then the ruthless Lucien Draven, heir to the city’s most feared crime dynasty, discovers her secret—and offers her a marriage contract instead of a death sentence.

Lucien needs a bride with old blood to secure his claim to the Obsidian Consortium. Seraphina needs access to the men who slaughtered her family. Their union is supposed to be a cold arrangement of power, deception, and mutual use, but the closer Seraphina gets to Lucien’s darkness, the more she suspects he is not the monster who destroyed her life—only the one who survived it.

In a city ruled by masked galas, blood debts, and family sins, desire becomes the most dangerous betrayal of all. Because Lucien knows who killed the Vales. And Seraphina may be sleeping beside the man who let it happen.