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Crimson Ties
Paperback
Series: Black Roses & Bloodlines, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 552
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the shadows of Chicago's criminal underworld, loyalty is more dangerous than betrayal and love can become a weapon.
When Malik Kingston steps deeper into the power his family built, he does it with cold precision, ruthless control, and the understanding that weakness gets people killed. Feared across the city for his intelligence, violence, and ability to dominate every room he enters, Malik has spent years burying every emotion beneath the weight of the Kingston empire. Power is easy. Control is survival. Attachment is a liability.
Then Jada Bishop walks into his world.
Haunted by betrayal and hunted by the ghosts of her past, Jada is trying to rebuild herself after escaping the brutal grip of Natalia Bishop and the blood stained network that nearly destroyed her. Once one of the most elite operatives in Black Roses, she now struggles against trauma, fear, and the terrifying possibility that she may never be the woman she used to be.
Forced into a dangerous partnership neither of them asked for, Malik and Jada are drawn into a deadly war of shifting alliances, Russian syndicates, political corruption, and family bloodlines soaked in violence. But the closer they work together, the more impossible it becomes to ignore the tension burning beneath every glance, every touch, and every moment spent in each other's orbit.
Malik was taught that love makes you vulnerable.
Jada knows what happens when devotion turns into possession.
But in a world where enemies hide behind loyalty and betrayal waits inside the people closest to them, the two must decide if trust is worth the risk or if loving each other will destroy everything they are fighting to protect.
Dark, seductive, and emotionally charged, Crimson Ties: Black Roses & Bloodlines Book Two is a gripping romantic suspense saga filled with dangerous passion, family loyalty, organized crime, and the kind of love that bleeds for survival.
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