The Vengeance Of Roses
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She was betrayed. Left for dead. Forgotten.
Lilith Moreau was the perfect mafia wife-obedient, beautiful, silent.
Until the night her husband put a bullet in her and left her to burn.
But Lilith didn't die.
She crawled from the ashes, soul scorched, heart turned to steel.
Now she's back-no longer a wife, but a weapon.
And she knows exactly where to start:
By hunting the most dangerous man in the city-
the man who once vowed to love her.
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