Pure Sin

Neil Rajput-whose name means pure-is anything but it.

Born the only heir to the Rajput mafia empire, Neil grows up surrounded by blood, guns, and loyalty bought with fear. Yet beneath the diamond-studded danger, he is sharp-tongued, shamelessly sassy, and dangerously honest about one thing: he is in love with Kartik Raizada, his personal bodyguard and his father's second-in-command.

Kartik Raizada is everything Neil should never want-cold, ruthless, disciplined to the point of cruelty. A man who has killed without blinking and never allowed himself a weakness. Protecting Neil has always been his duty... and his curse. Loving the mafia prince is a sin he refuses to confess.

When Neil finally dares to cross the line and confess his feelings, Kartik crushes him with a lie-I don't love you.
The rejection is clean. Precise. Merciless.

The next morning, Neil disappears.

For the first time in his life, Kartik panics.

The mansion feels wrong without Neil's laughter, his sharp remarks, his reckless warmth. Kartik searches, questions, threatens-but Neil's father remains calm. Neil, he says, has gone on a week-long picnic with friends. Kartik forces himself to believe it, even as guilt eats him alive.

When Neil returns, he is no longer alone.

He brings Siya with him-a cold, tomboyish girl with dead eyes and a lethal presence. Neil introduces her as his girlfriend, his voice light, his smile unreadable. Siya fits too easily into the mafia world, as if she belongs to it.

Kartik watches from the shadows as something dark awakens inside him.

Jealousy turns into possession. Possession turns into obsession. The man who claimed he felt nothing now burns with rage at every smile Neil gives her, every inch of space she occupies beside him.

What Kartik doesn't know is that Siya is not what she seems-and Neil's "purity" was never innocence.

in the mafia, denial is deadlier than desire-and the prince, Kartik tried to protect may become the one thing that destroys him.