I married a dangerous man to stay alive. Then a stranger walked into the room and called me his daughter.
Now I live in a mansion on a lake I'm not allowed to leave, in a white room full of everything I ever wanted, with a father who smiles like a saint and keeps his secrets behind a locked door.
He wants me to forget my husband. He has already chosen the next one.
He says I'm finally home.
Every night I sit at the window and watch the dark water. And every night, somewhere out there, a light answers me.
I have never been so loved, or so caged.
FRANCESCO
They took my wife from me in front of everyone who matters and called it the law.
I'm forbidden to see her. Forbidden to touch her. One step onto her father's land and I start a war that ends with both of us in the ground.
So I'll come by water.
He thinks a lake and a locked gate can hold her. He thinks blood makes her his.
He has never seen what I'll do for her.
This is the second book in The Velvet and Gold Series. Reading order:
Dance, Little Sinner.
Bleed, Little Sinner.
Kneel, Little Sinner.