Iris

They say desperate people make terrible choices.

I married a stranger to save my mother's life. Kane Hellboud was charming, wealthy, and willing to pay for the experimental treatment she needed. All he wanted in return was me.

I didn't know about the monitoring. The isolation. The rules that multiplied like chains around my throat. I didn't know that behind his perfect smile lived something cold and possessive and violent.

I didn't know about the supernatural world hidden in plain sight.

Then Abel Stone walks into my life, all dark eyes and dangerous promises. My new boss shouldn't affect me this way. I shouldn't feel this pull toward him, this recognition that defies logic. Around him, lights explode. Electronics die. Something ancient inside me stirs awake.

Kane senses it too. His control is tightening. His punishments are escalating. And he's keeping secrets about what I really am.
Between two powerful men, I'm discovering I'm not the helpless victim they both think I am.

Some prisons need to burn. Some monsters need to bleed. And some women are more dangerous than anyone suspects.

The gun trembled in my hand as I pressed it against my father's temple.
"Give me one reason not to pull this trigger."
He didn't even flinch. "Because you're smart enough to know a corpse can't pay debts. They'll kill you next."
"You sold me." My voice cracked. "To him. To the man whose people murdered Mama."
"Dante Caravelli gets you, and I get to keep breathing. Simple math."
I lowered the gun, but not because I forgave him. Because I had a better plan.
If my father is sending me into the monster's lair, I'd make sure the monster paid for everything he'd taken from me.
Starting with his empire.
Ending with his life.

Lilith Rosetti enters Dante Caravelli’s world with one mission: destroy the man she believes murdered her mother. Sold to settle her father’s debt, she becomes a servant in the Caravelli fortress, perfect cover to infiltrate his empire and take everything from him.
But Dante is colder and more controlled than any monster she imagined, and the only crack in his armour is his lonely five-year-old daughter… who clings to Lilith like she’s the only light left in their home.
As Lilith gains Dante’s trust, the lines between vengeance and desire blur. But she’d soon find out that there is much more trouble brewing than her revenge plan because in the mafiaworld, chaos and destruction are everlasting.
She came to ruin him.
He might be the only one who can save her.
And in the underworld, love is just another weapon.