Teeth & Roses

☕ TEETH & ROSES ☕

by Liliane Wilde

When mob heiress Dani Velloni finally convinces her overprotective father to let her attend college, there's one condition: she has to take a bodyguard.
She expected a soldier. A shadow. Someone silent, serious, maybe even scary.

She got Vhreka Fallow.

He steals her coffee, eats her toast, whistles pop songs, and smiles too much for a man who's supposed to kill people for a living.
He's infuriating, ridiculous... and, somehow, impossible to ignore.

But behind that grin is something ancient-something not entirely human.
Because when Vhreka stops joking, the air goes cold.
And Dani learns that her new bodyguard isn't a man pretending to be a monster-
he's a monster pretending to be a man.

Now college comes with curfews, killers, and a creature who calls her sunshine while quietly deciding who gets to live if they look at her wrong.
She wanted independence.
She got the apocalypse in a leather jacket.

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Tropes & Vibes:
🖤 sunshine-and-death dynamic
☕ chaotic bodyguard / sheltered daughter
💀 found-family-but-make-it-mob
🌹 humor that flirts with horror
🔥 slow burn, sharp teeth, soft coffee