Thorns & Ashes: Dark Mafia Romance

ANGELINA

I married the most dangerous man in Philadelphia because I had no choice.

Now I'd choose him every time.

He's taught me to throw a punch, to fire a gun, to float when the water wants to swallow me. He's taught me what his hands can do in the dark, and how it feels when a man like him says please.

But somebody wants me dead.

Somebody who knows the codes to our doors and the names of our guards. Somebody who knows exactly where I'll go when I'm frightened.

Somebody who has known me my whole life.

I spent twenty-one years being told what I was allowed to want. I'm not going to spend the rest of it being afraid.

This time, I'm walking into the dark on purpose.

LEONE

I told her everything I keep, I break.

She didn't run. She stayed. She put her hand in mine and said my name like it meant something, and now I can't remember the man I was before her.

Someone is coming for my wife. Not from the street. From inside. From the people she still calls family.

I made her two promises. I'll stop deciding things for her. I'll tell her the truth, even when it cuts.

Keeping them might get her killed. Breaking them will lose her forever.

So I'll stand behind her. And if anyone so much as touches her, I'll burn this city to the ground and sit in the ashes.

This is the second book in The Empire of Ash and Roses Series. Reading order:

Bullets and Roses.

Thorns and Ashes.