VIOLETTA
I walked down the aisle with poison hidden under my wedding dress.
My father sold me to a monster, and I made my peace with it the only way a mafia princess can. I would say my vows at eleven. I would be a widow by midnight.
Then the church doors opened.
He walked up the aisle like he owned my life, put a gun to my groom's head, and took me.
Damiano Ferro. The only survivor of the wedding my father turned into a funeral. The man who swore on his mother's grave that every drop of Mancini blood would end with him.
He married me that same night. Now I sleep under his roof, wear his ring, and learn exactly how dangerous a man can be when he wants something.
I should hate him. I'm trying.
DAMIANO
I have wanted her for three years.
I watched her from the dark while I planned how to destroy her father. I knew her habits, her secrets, the nights she couldn't sleep. I knew she would be the key to everything.
I didn't know she would be the one thing I couldn't bring myself to break.
She's Aurelio Mancini's daughter. Soft voice, perfect manners, and a mind more dangerous than any gun in this city.
She's my enemy's blood, and she's mine.
Every man in Chicago wants her back. Let them try.
Anyone who touches my wife dies.
This is the first book in The Poisoned Petals Series. Reading order:
Stolen Petals.
Bloody Petals.
Deadly Petals.
