(The Royal Trilogy Book 2) Spin-off of 'The Princess'. A year has gone by since Kane Bowman retired from being a hitman. He now works as a bodyguard and tries to walk the straight and narrow. When his own brother kidnaps his wife Francesca, Kane will do whatever it takes to get her back and to make his brother pay for betraying him. After the abduction, Francesca's left scarred emotionally and physically. She struggles to move on with her life, but how can she move on when the man that kidnapped her is still out there somewhere and not finished with her yet? Can Kane and Francesca get past what has happened and grow stronger as a couple? Or will everything they worked so hard for fall apart?

They thought it was only a short love affair... Leandro Salazar, Conde de Parama, knew he had found the woman who will be his perfect mistress-sexy and wild in bed. But as soon as the summer ended the woman he made as his mistress vanished from the face of the earth as he had just imagined her. Now a few weeks later he saw reports that she's already married to another man. No one played the fool to Leandro Salazar he will have his revenge on this heartless woman! But they got it wrong... Leila Fiorenza never thought that few weeks of freedom before her marriage would result in a full-blown affair with the most gorgeous man she'd ever seen. But her runaway escapade resulted to put her twin sister in chaos with her rebellion against her father's command. It's time to go back to the real world-the world she desperately left behind. Even if means leaving the man who might be the love of her life. But they both need to face the consequence of their affair that will change their lives forever.