Book 1 in "Thorns and temptation series" 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒖𝒏, 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎, 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒚 𝒎𝒆-𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆. 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖-𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓-𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑚𝑒. 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑽𝒆𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒂-𝑰 𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒆. ✦✦✦✦✦ Life doesn't hand you clarity, it dares you to find it through the storm. -Veyanika Raichand A mafia princess who lives by her own rules-unyielding, fierce, and untouchable. No one can make her bow or break her spirit. If anyone who dares to challenge her, she doesn't hesitate to put them firmly in their place. But beneath that fierce exterior, there's one thing she'll always do without question: anything for her loved ones. Family is her world, and for them, she's unstoppable. ✦✦✦✦✦ Pain didn't break him. It carved him into something colder... something relentless." -Sebastian Raffaele Vitale A mafia king driven by a relentless hunger for revenge. His strength isn't just physical-it's born from deep scars that hollow him out inside, leaving a ruthless, unbreakable shell on the outside. That burning determination, forged in pain and loss, defines who Sebastian is. Nothing will stand in his way.