Roses Cut Deep Series

SCARLETT

I made one mistake.

I looked at the wrong man and didn’t look away.

Pietro Santoro is violence dressed in tailored suits, a man who doesn’t ask and never forgives. He didn’t seduce me. He cornered me. Claimed space in my life like he already owned it.

Now I’m trapped between rival families, dirty cops, and a man who decides my fate without asking. Pietro offers protection, but protection comes with conditions: stay close, stay silent, stay his.

I should be afraid of how easily I let him in.

Of how quickly his hands became home.

But fear doesn’t feel like this.

This feels like stepping into fire and deciding to burn.

PIETRO

I don’t chase. I take.

She became a liability the moment she knew too much.

Scarlett was never meant for my world, which is exactly why I wanted her. She looks at me like I’m more than what I’ve done, and that makes her dangerous.

Anyone who touches her signs their own death.

Anyone who tries to take her learns what suffering really is.

Keeping her alive means exposing her to the truth of who I am—and forcing her to choose whether she can live with it.

Because once she’s in, there’s no way out without blood.

She’s mine.

And the city will bleed before I let her forget it.

This is the first book in the Roses Cut Deep Series. Reading order:

Every Rose Bleeds

Every Thorn Cuts

Every Crown Draws