> "You changed your name, your face, and even your soul... but you can't run from blood," Lucian whispered, pressing the barrel of his gun to her chest. "You're still a Valente."
Sera met his gaze, unflinching. "And you're still a monster. Let's dance, devil."
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Sera Valente, daughter of a fallen mafia boss, has lived in hiding for the past ten years after witnessing her family's massacre by a rival syndicate. She's been living a quiet life under a new name, attending university, and pretending the past never happened. But when her uncle is found dead in a suspicious car explosion, Sera is pulled back into the world she tried so hard to escape.
Enter Lucian Moretti, the cold and ruthless heir to the powerful Moretti Mafia family—one of the key players suspected in her family's downfall. But Lucian has secrets of his own. He knows things about Sera's past that could shatter everything she believes about the night her family died.
When Sera is forced into a marriage alliance with Lucian to prevent a mafia war, sparks fly—both deadly and seductive. She plans to kill him after getting close enough. He plans to control her... but neither is prepared for the dangerous attraction growing between them, or the truth that will unravel everything.
As alliances shift, betrayals multiply, and blood debts come due, Sera must decide: can she destroy the man who might have saved her life—or fall for the one person she was raised to hate?
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