Dark Defiance

"The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for." Willa Thorne transferred to Sovereign Bay University with one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's hidden past. She expected restricted archives and entitled rich students. She didn't expect Kieran Marchetti. As the heir to one of the town's founding mafia dynasties, Kieran is cold, calculating, and tasked by his family with making Willa disappear from campus. But instead of breaking her, he becomes obsessed. As Willa digs deeper into the bloodlines that control the city, she uncovers a sealed genetic secret that could destroy three powerful families. Now caught in a dangerous game of surveillance and betrayal, she realizes the boy hired to ruin her might be the only one standing between her and a permanent grave.