In a kingdom built on love and peace, Lucian Nyxveil was the only shadow. Once a man of light, he was shattered by grief, consumed by vengeance, and labeled a villain. But even in the darkness, one person still believed in him-Seraphina, the king's daughter.
Their love was forbidden. Their fate, sealed.
Sentenced to death, Lucian vanished before the axe could fall. The world thought him gone. He never returned. He never looked back.
But Seraphina knew the truth. She knew where he was. She knew who he had become. And though he had chosen another, she kept his secret. She protected him from the king's wrath-until the day she was caught.
Now, Lucian is free. And Seraphina is the one paying the price.
Some betray for love. Some kill for it. And some die because of it.
"Love and death, two things I was trained to master, yet never meant to feel."
Seraphina Elyse Cavallari, lived her life in the shadows, half Filipina, half Italian, fully dangerous. She was the Syndicate's deadliest assassin, the kind of woman whose name was whispered in fear and admiration. Cold, beautiful, untouchable.
Until she broke one rule.
Never fall in love with your target.
Caelon Evander Valerio, heir to one of Italy's most powerful mafia families. Rich, ruthless, and worshipped by those who feared him. He wasn't supposed to love a killer. She wasn't supposed to kill the man she loved.
But fate had other plans.
After a betrayal that drenched the streets of Naples in blood, Seraphina finds herself hunted by the very world she once ruled. The gangs she worked for want her dead, and the man whose heart she destroyed wants answers.
As her past collides with her present, secrets unfold, about her family, her childhood in the Philippines, and the truth behind the syndicate that made her who she is.
In a world where roses bloom in blood and love is deadlier than a bullet,
can Seraphina escape her past...
or will Caelon's obsession bring her back to it?