Vows Written in Ash

When her disgraced father loses everything to the most feared man in the city, twenty-three-year-old Seraphina Vale is offered as collateral in a marriage contract sealed behind cathedral doors and guarded by men with guns. Her new husband, Lucien D’Aramitz, is the reclusive heir to a criminal empire disguised as old money: beautiful, merciless, and rumored to have buried every woman who ever betrayed him. Seraphina enters his rain-soaked mansion determined to survive him, uncover his secrets, and buy back her freedom.

But Lucien did not choose her at random. Years ago, a masked girl saved his life during the fire that destroyed his family, and he has hunted her through lies, blood, and forged names ever since. As desire becomes a weapon neither can control, Seraphina discovers her marriage is part of a larger war between dynasties, and the truth of her identity may be the one thing Lucien can never forgive.