Vows Written in Ash

Seraphina Vale has spent ten years hiding behind a false name, a quiet job restoring old books, and the hope that the monsters who murdered her family have forgotten she survived. Then a black envelope arrives with her real name written in silver ink—and a marriage contract binding her to Lucian Devereaux, the ruthless heir to the city’s most feared crime dynasty.

Lucian doesn’t want a wife. He wants the key hidden in Seraphina’s bloodline, the one thing that can unlock a vault of secrets powerful enough to destroy every ruling family in Blackthorne. But the girl he drags to the altar is not the frightened pawn he expected. She remembers his face from the night her house burned, and she has her own reasons for stepping into his gilded cage.

As desire twists into obsession and enemies close in from every shadowed corner, Seraphina must decide whether Lucian is her captor, her ruin, or the only man dangerous enough to help her burn the truth free.