Vows Written in Velvet

Seraphina Vale has spent seven years hiding from the gilded monsters who own London’s underworld, surviving as a restoration artist under a false name. Then her dying father sells her back into the world she escaped, binding her in an arranged marriage to Cassian Blackthorne—the ruthless heir of a crime dynasty, a man rumored to collect debts in blood and secrets. Cassian does not want a wife. He wants the key Seraphina’s family stole from him, and he intends to pry it from her even if he must ruin her to do it.

But Seraphina is not the obedient bride he expects. Behind her soft voice and silk gloves lies a dangerous hidden identity, one tied to a murdered heiress, a missing ledger, and the night Cassian’s mother died. As their marriage becomes a battlefield of desire, manipulation, and forbidden tenderness, both discover they are pawns in a conspiracy older than their families’ feud.

In a city where love is leverage and trust is fatal, Seraphina must decide whether Cassian is her captor, her enemy, or the only man dark enough to save her.