VALENTINA
My father has chosen the man I will marry.
He is cruel. He is patient. And he looks at me like I already belong to him.
So I give myself one night before the ring. One stranger. One false name. One hotel room high above the city where nobody knows whose daughter I am.
He was supposed to be a secret I kept for the rest of my life.
Then I learn his real name.
He is the heir to the family my father has hated for fourteen years. The family my father blames for the night my mother died.
He is engaged to someone else.
And he will not let me go.
MIKHAIL
I don't fall in love. I take what I want and I walk away before my father can use it against me.
She was meant to be one night.
Then she pointed a gun at me while I stood there in a towel, and laughed about it, and I forgot every rule I was raised on.
She belongs to my enemy. In a few weeks she will belong to a monster.
Her father wants my blood. Mine wants her gone.
They can both try.
I have never broken a promise, and I promised her she would never be his.
This is the first book in The Shadows & Desire Series. Reading order:
Wicked Vows.
Wicked Lies.
