Vivienne buried her husband in a dress worth more than the men who feared him.
Three days later, the man he raised to destroy her arrived to collect what was his.
Roman was never supposed to inherit mercy. He was raised inside Maison Sayegh to enforce, not to feel — and the widow bleeding his father's empire dry was exactly the kind of problem he'd been trained to end. Instead, he married her.
Now the tribunal that spared her once is done waiting. A woman presumed dead for twenty-two years has resurfaced with a hostage, a countdown, and a debt only Roman can pay. Vivienne built a secret network to save the women his family sold. Roman built a fortress around a heart he swore didn't work anymore. Neither of them counted on needing the other to survive what's coming.
The empire Gabriel Sayegh built is about to burn. The only question left is who Roman and Vivienne become in the ashes.
The Empire We Burn is Book Two of the Sayegh Duology — a complete, dual-POV dark mafia romance with a full HEA. (Start with The Widow He Claimed for the full story — coming soon.)