Vows and Vendettas

He broke her heart once to save her life. Now their fathers are forcing them to the altar to save a city.Five years ago, Selah Calloway loved Malik Vantrell in secret - two heirs from rival empires, stealing weekends their families would have burned to the ground if they'd known. Then Malik's brother was murdered, and two weeks later Malik looked Selah dead in the eye and told her none of it had ever been real. He vanished. She built a wall around her heart and swore she'd never let a Vantrell anywhere near it again.The war that followed cost eleven lives in five years. Now, after a nineteen-year-old soldier bleeds out on a warehouse floor, two exhausted patriarchs strike a desperate bargain: peace, sealed in blood the old-fashioned way - a marriage. Calloway to Vantrell. Selah to Malik.She says yes to stop the dying. She never says she's forgiven him.Forced into the same house, the same bed, the same impossible performance of a happy union in front of two hundred watching guests, Selah and Malik are supposed to be strangers wearing wedding rings. But old wounds don't stay buried under new vows, and the closer they're forced together, the harder it becomes to remember why she ever let him go - or to ignore the growing certainty that his five-year lie was never about not loving her at all.Then Selah uncovers a secret buried the night his brother died - proof that the war was never what either family believed, and that someone closer than either of them ever suspected has been pulling the strings all along. As the real enemy closes in and the fragile peace threatens to collapse into something far bloodier than before, Selah and Malik have to decide whether the love they buried five years ago is worth risking everything to dig back up - before the people hunting them make that choice for good.VOWS AND VENDETTAS is a full-length urban second-chance romance of forced marriage, family war, hidden betrayal, and a love two dynasties tried and failed to destroy. If you love enemies-to-family sagas, marriages of convenience that catch fire, and heroines who fight their way back to the men who broke them, this standalone story of loyalty, danger, and redemption will keep you turning pages until the very last vow.