Dionne Valez's life ended the night her house went up in flames.
Her ninth birthday was supposed to be a celebration-balloons, cake, love.
Instead, it became a graveyard of smoke and screams. Her parents dead. Her past reduced to ash.
Now twenty-five, Dionne lives under the roof of Caleb Ashford, a powerful, polished man who wears guilt like silk-smooth and untouchable. He took her in after the fire. Raised her. Gave her a new life. But Dionne has always known something was wrong. Caleb's kindness felt too perfect. Too rehearsed.
Worse? His daughter Lia, her best friend, her only light, knows nothing of the monster her father truly is.
Dionne has spent years transforming herself into a weapon-deadly, beautiful, untouchable. An assassin hiding behind charm and couture, waiting for the day she can tear open the past and find the truth. That day comes when Caleb throws her a lavish birthday party, inviting everyone from his empire... and possibly, the people responsible for destroying hers.
But the night doesn't go as planned.
Because Kaelion Cain Blackbourne is watching her from the shadows.
CEO. Mafia King. Ruthless beyond redemption.
He's here for revenge too. Only Caleb didn't just ruin Dionne's life-he annihilated Kaelion's.
He's not here to flirt. He's here to burn.
And when he kidnaps Dionne, mistaking her for Caleb's daughter, their world collides in a violent, seductive game of betrayal and obsession. She hates him. He doesn't trust her. But both are chasing the same man... and the truth that could kill them.
Beneath every threat, every scar, every slow-burning glance-they begin to see themselves in each other: broken souls molded by fire, bound by vengeance.
In the shadows of Caleb Ashford's empire, love is a weapon, and survival means choosing who to kill first-your enemy, or your own heart.
(Bfflad- Best friends for life and death)
Dear Reader,
Let's start at the beginning shall we?
I died.
Oh no, not one of these stories again where someone angelic and heroic saves the damsel in distress.
If only I was that lucky.
My heart stopped beating. My lungs stopped working, my soul began to lift away...
And then I was saved by a beautiful man with a kind heart and sparkles sprinkled around his head in a golden halo. A cunning, dazzling smile etched his angled features and his hair lay perfectly on his head like...black, sinful layers of pure cynical distrusting evil. Evil that was just waiting to onset a innocent girl as myself and allow her a short amount of time of happiness, and then finish her off when she became older.
I'll give you a hint. The beginning of that description was slightly exaggerated.
The Angel of Death. One of the only creatures known that was capable of settling the boundaries of heaven on earth. The only creature capable of making one of the Devil's darkest deals to my loving mother; a second chance for her daughter.
This comes with consequences of course.
Everything you know about Death is wrong. Death is not natural, Death is not normal, Death is not doleful, and Death is far from mercenary.
Death blends into the shadows like coal against the most atramentous sky.
Death walks the earth with his cursed, monstrous and exotic features, his enticing voice and betraying alluring eyes.
Death deceives, scratches, and plays with your mind, until you slowly and painfully loose your grip on reality. He'll make you believe he's a different person, that there's a sliver hope for him. Hope for you.
Death is close.
Forever and always,
Faith Williams
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