Blood Vows

He was supposed to be her vow. She was sent to be his death.

When the Bratva's most feared Underboss is forced to marry the mute daughter of a rival Mafia Don, he expects a trembling bride. A fragile pawn. A girl made of glass.

He's wrong.

Elena Moretti hasn't spoken a word since the night someone cut her throat at age eight. But silence isn't weakness — it's a weapon. Trained since childhood as her father's deadliest assassin, she walks down the aisle carrying five hidden blades and a thirty-day deadline: kill her new husband, or her brother dies.

Nikolai Volkov catches her blade one millimeter from his throat on their wedding night. He doesn't call his guards. He doesn't retaliate. He smiles — because the woman who just tried to murder him is the most thrilling thing he's ever encountered.

What follows is not a love story wrapped in silk. It's a war disguised as a marriage. Poisoned coffee at breakfast. A waltz where both partners hold concealed weapons. A firefight where they discover they move like two halves of the same lethal machine. Every assassination attempt becomes foreplay. Every act of violence becomes a conversation neither of them can have with words.

But when Elena discovers her own father orchestrated an attack meant to destroy them both, the mission shatters. Now she must choose: complete the kill and return to a family that sees her as a tool — or stand beside the only man who ever heard her silence and understood exactly what it meant.

In the underworld, loyalty is blood. Love is a loaded gun. And the most dangerous vow is the one you actually mean.

Blood Vows is a full-length dark mafia romance featuring an arranged marriage, a mute assassin heroine, enemies-to-lovers tension, explicit content, and a guaranteed HEA. Book One in the Vows of Blood & Silence series. Reader discretion advised.