The Reign Of Shadows Series

LANA

I thought the cathedral would be my sanctuary, but among the lilies and the incense, the devil found me. Saint Malaspina didn’t come to mourn my father; he came to collect a debt that was never mine to pay. Pressed against the cold stone of the sacristy, his obsidian gaze stripped me of my agency, turning me into living collateral in a war that has only just begun.

Now I am a prisoner in his soundproofed villa, trapped in a world where his touch is the only language I’m permitted to understand. I should hate the monster who uses my body to hunt his enemies, yet I find myself craving the very cage he’s built for me. His darkness is a poison I swallow willingly, surrendering my will to a man who promises to break me before he ever lets me go.

SAINT

The moment I pinned her against that cold sacristy wall, I knew Lana Fioravanti would be my undoing. She was meant to be a tool—a piece of leverage to smoke out the rats who betrayed my family—but her fire hooked me deeper than any debt ever could. I intended to break her spirit and use her body as a weapon, but I found myself enslaved by a voyeuristic hunger I can no longer control.

I should have remained the stone-faced enforcer, but her surrender has become my only oxygen. Now, as the Sanguineti circle my estate with blood in their eyes, I realize I will destroy anyone who dares to look at what is mine. She is my obsession, my most dangerous asset, and I will burn every bridge in Lombardy before I let the world take back what I’ve claimed.

This is the first book in The Reign Of Shadows Series. Reading order: Owned by Sin, Broken By Love, Built On Ashes.