The Ruthless Vow: Subtitle: A Dark Mafia Enemies to Lovers Romance

A golden cage is still a cage. But a devil in the dark might just be salvation.Lyra Solano has spent her entire life as collateral. As the prized daughter of Vespera's most ruthless cartel king, her existence is a perfectly curated prison of silk gowns, armed guards, and suffocating expectations. She is a pawn waiting to be traded to the highest bidder.Until the lights go out.Kaelen Morvath is a ghost. The legendary, untouchable boss of a rival syndicate, he is an apex predator driven by a fifteen-year thirst for vengeance against the Solano bloodline. He orchestrates a flawless strike in the dead of night, stealing Lyra away to his isolated island fortress, the Obsidian Keep.He intended to use her as bait to break her father's empire. He expected a terrified princess. What he gets is a defiant, brilliant architect who begins to map the flaws in his impenetrable walls-and the cracks in his frozen heart.As the cartel war explodes across the mainland, the suffocating tension between captor and captive ignites into a dangerous, consuming obsession. Kaelen locks a collar of black diamonds around her throat, claiming her as his own, but Vicente Solano will burn the city to the ground to get his daughter back.Caught in the crossfire of a bloody syndicate siege, Lyra must make a choice: return to the father who views her as property, or surrender completely to the monster who would take a bullet to the chest just to see her wear his crown.The king is dead. Long live the Queen.

Pages: 158, Paperback, Independently published