New York Underworld

I'm an alibi for a killer, but he demands so much more than my testimony. I stumbled across something I wasn't supposed to discover. I saw something I wasn't meant to see, and now I'm an alibi for a killer. He's the most feared and powerful man in the New York underworld. I don't have a choice but to do as he says. But he commands so much more than just my testimony.

He offers me protection, but the bed of a killer isn't a safe place to be. I got myself in a predicament. Powerful people on both sides of the law want me dead. A killer needs me alive for his own selfish reasons, reasons I never could've imagined in my wildest dreams. I'm not safe in the bed of a cold–blooded murderer, but I don't have a choice. On the one hand, he offers me protection, and on the other, he tightens the noose. I'm caught in his web of lies and deceit. Every truth that's uncovered destroys me a little more. But he's already injected me with his venomous seduction. Before I know it, he'll swallow me whole.

My husband will never love me, but I'm in this now until death do us part. The man who threatened to carry me over his shoulder down the aisle and marry me at knifepoint is both my captor and my liberator. He makes me weak and strong at the same time. Before, he didn't give me an option. Now, there's a choice. But he's determined to push me away. If I'm wise, I'll take that freedom and run for my life. Because the heart of the man who captured and saved me will always belong to the woman who broke it. The man who calls himself my husband will never be mine. Only, there is no choice for me any longer. It's way too late to walk away. I'm in this war now … until death do us part.

He can never know about the life we created in a bed of lies, because the man I called my lover is the monster who killed my parents, and I'm next on the list. I know what it's like to be used. Dante ruined me for the sake of his revenge. He destroyed me for his selfish gain without thinking twice. What he doesn't know is that we created something pure and innocent in that bed of lies. We made a new life, one I have to hide from him at all costs, because the man I called my lover is the cold-hearted monster who killed my parents, and I'm next on the list. He left me with no choice but to run. For five long years, I've been hiding, barely surviving, always outsmarting the men who hunt me while Dante's ghost stalks my shadows and haunts my thoughts. And now that he's caught a whiff of my scent, he's like a bloodhound on my trail. He's out to finish what he started. I'm the last obstacle standing between him and the fortune he stole from my family. But this isn't a fairy tale, and I'm not that girl anymore. I decide how my story ends.

His weapon is seduction, the battlefield between his sheets, and cruel betrayal the blade he plunges deep. My mother raised me on knights in shining armor and happily-ever-afters. She groomed me to be the perfect mafia princess. It was only natural that I'd believe in fairy tales. Only, I didn't fall for the prince. I fell in love with my father's enemy. I've never deluded myself about the man Dante is. Powerful. Cold. Ruthless. Brutal. Bad doesn't come close to describing him. But when he held me in his arms in a rented room, he showed me that he could be good. Just for me. He always chained the monster when I was pinned beneath him, at my most vulnerable and exposed, in the most dangerous place I could be. The darkness I glimpsed in him is embedded in his soul, coloring his heart and world black. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I lost myself to a callous man. I just couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams that his seduction was only part of a cruel strategy and that I was nothing but the pawn he used for his revenge.