A Vow Made in Blood

She was never supposed to be the bride.

Hours before a marriage meant to secure a fragile alliance, Livia Vale disappears.

By sunrise, her sister Mara is negotiating to take her place.

Mara Vale does not believe in obedience. Adrian Varek believes in control. Their marriage is supposed to stabilize powerful families, dangerous loyalties, and a network built on agreements no outsider is meant to understand.

It is not supposed to become personal.

But Mara enters Adrian's world with conditions of her own -- and no intention of becoming anyone's possession. Adrian has spent his life turning uncertainty into leverage. Mara is the first variable he cannot contain.

Then surveillance begins. Old bargains surface. Enemies move closer. And the marriage that was meant to solve a problem becomes the most dangerous vulnerability either of them has ever had.

Because desire is easy.

Trust is not.

And in the Varek world, every vow has a price.

A Vow Made in Blood is Book One of The Varek Network, an interconnected dark mafia romance series featuring a formidable heroine, a possessive but controlled hero, arranged marriage, forced proximity, dangerous family alliances, intense chemistry, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.