The Prince of Shadows(and his Spark among the Ashes)

He was the crown prince of the city's underworld. She was the police chief's daughter.

Nova Bright knows her art student boyfriend and his cousins(also her best friends) are hiding a painful past. She feels it in his protective grip, sees it in the shadows behind each of their eyes. But his gentle affection and their loyalty is the one thing that steadies her world against the pressures of law school and her own fragile health. She trusts him implicitly. She trusts all three of them.

Victor Ashlin is living on borrowed time. The "normal" life he's built with Nova is a beautiful lie. For two years, he's secretly waged a war against his aunt's criminal empire, all to create a future worthy of the woman he loves.

But his aunt strikes first. On the exact night he was going to tell her everything.

When the ambush comes, Victor , Vera and Vargas's only way to save Nova is to shatter her trust completely. Looking into her terrified, confused eyes, he makes the only choice he can-he knocks her out to keep her alive. And drags her to their world.

Now, the man she loved as an artist must reveal himself as the Prince of Shadows. And Nova must decide if the greatest threat to her is his world... or the man she thought she knew.