Empire Of Glass And Gunfire {Mafia romance}

She crawled out of the grave. He built his throne on blood. Now the vultus wants them both dead.

Alarose has spent her life running from shadows that wear familiar faces, from the blood soaked secrets of a past she can't afford to remember. When the Vultus, an underground death squad built on corpses and cruelty she's their next target. But they aren't just hunting her. They're after Ace Winterbourne too, the ruthless crime king who rules his empire with cold calculation and graveyard grace with a loaded gun and a smile sharp enough to kill... one he only shows when there's blood to spill.

They've never met. But she shows up in his underground ring, bleeding and breathless, and takes a bullet meant for him.
"Do you believe me now?" She asks bleeding out in his arms.
That's all it takes.

Drawn into Ace's violent world of blood soaked deals,shadow meetings and power games played at gun point Alarose becomes both weapon and weakness. They strike a dangerous bargain-he gives her protection, she gives him war, and to dismantle the threat from within his empire. To survive, they fake a relationship in the eyes of both enemies and allies. But the closer they play the part, the harder it becomes to tell what's real and what's pretend anymore.

Someone in Ace's trusted circle is leaking secrets. Cassian the ghost from his past and the heir to the Vultus is hunting them both. And a faceless stalker has marked Alarose for something far worse than death.

In a world of glass smiles, trigger fingers, and shifting loyalties...
The only thing deadlier than love is betrayal