I was ordered to end her life. I wasn’t prepared for her to destroy mine.

She was an assignment.

Another body to bury.

As the nephew of Chicago’s most powerful capo and the elite fixer trusted with the Family’s deadliest secrets, my job was simple:

Hunt the woman. Confirm the evidence. Eliminate the threat.

Except, nothing about Lena Haywood is simple.

And I’m not the only one who wants her dead.

An impoverished music student and disobedient spitfire, Lena is the unlikely key to the turf war my family is waging—and the dark obsession that’s going to ruin me.

Because instead of following orders and eliminating Lena, I betray the Family and break every rule I’ve ever lived by.

I do the unforgivable.

I marry her.

It’s the only way to keep Lena alive long enough to get to the truth.

The only way to satisfy the relentless craving that’s quickly turning into an incurable addiction.

An addiction that’s going to get us both killed.

Because as the threats on her life multiply and the secrets of Lena’s past are uncovered, I’m faced with an impossible choice:

Kill for the family I would die for, or fight for the woman I refuse to live without.

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