“I packed a red dress for my own funeral. I didn’t expect to wear it down the aisle.”
Alessia Conti was raised to be the perfect mafia daughter: silent, obedient, and completely disposable. For twenty-one years, she survived her father’s cruelty by fading into the shadows, doing whatever it took to shield her younger sister from the monsters circling their family name.
But when her father loses a brutal syndicate war, he doesn’t just surrender his territory. He surrenders Alessia.
Cassian Varga is a monster wearing a bespoke suit. Known as the Reaper, the head of the Varga Syndicate is a ruthless, cold-blooded butcher who slaughters his enemies without a second thought. He demanded Alessia as the ultimate spoil of war, intending to lock the Conti princess in a gilded cage to humiliate her family.
But Cassian completely underestimated his new bride. Alessia isn’t a fragile pawn waiting to be broken. She is a woman who has finally realized that the only way to survive the dark is to rule it.
As a deadly new war threatens to consume the Eastern Seaboard and her sister’s life hangs in the balance, Alessia must make a choice: play the terrified victim, or join hands with the Reaper and burn her father’s empire to the ground.
He wanted a captive. She gave him a queen. And together, they are going to paint the city red.
A Vow of Thorns is a dark, scorching mafia arranged-marriage romance. It features a morally black, obsessively possessive anti-hero, a heroine who learns to weaponize her scars, and intense, pulse-pounding syndicate warfare. Please read the author’s note inside for content warnings.
