Scarlet Bride

NEVE

I grew up in my father's casino like a jewel in a glass case. Pretty. Expensive. Never touched.

The night he announced my engagement to a man who frightens me, somebody paid a fortune to see me dead.

And the man who reached me first, through the gunfire and the dark, was the one who walked out of my life five years ago without a word.

He was paid to kill me. I asked him to marry me instead.

He says no other hand can touch me while he breathes. He won't say what it costs him.

Now I sleep beside the most dangerous man in Las Vegas, and every night I give him a little more of myself.

I just don't know which of us he'll choose when the clock runs out.

ACHILLE

For five years I've belonged to a man who keeps a book. Every name in it ends the same way.

I was one name away from freedom. Then he turned the page and showed me the last one.

Hers.

She's a nurse with steady hands and a mouth made for sin. The Don's daughter. The girl who got me sent away.

I took her so nobody else could.

I married her because she asked. I'll keep her because I can't stop.

Thirty nights. One of us isn't walking away from this.

It won't be her.

This is the first book in The Scarlet Chapel Series. Reading order:

Scarlet Bride.

Scarlet Vendetta.

Scarlet Queen.

339 pages. Kindle edition.