Bloodline (SAMPLE)

To the world, she was the Silk. To her family, she was a ghost. To him, she is the only thing worth dying for.

Rosella Valenti has lived her life in a gilded cage of emerald silk and ruby velvet, groomed to be the perfect heir to a legacy she never understood. She thought her uncle was her protector. She thought her world was built on tradition. She was wrong.

When the Triads strike and the city begins to burn, Rosella is thrust into the care of the one man who truly knows the darkness: Shadow. A lethal, silent sentinel with a past as scarred as his body, he doesn't see a princess to be pampered-he sees a woman who needs to survive.

From rooftop leaps and burning mansions to the clinical silence of a hidden bunker, Rosella and Shadow must navigate a web of blood-money and betrayal. As the lies of the Valenti family are stripped away, Rosella discovers that the "monster" assigned to guard her is the only person who sees the soul beneath the dress.

The empire has fallen. The accounts are empty. But in the ashes of the old world, a new queen is rising. And her monster is ready to burn the city to the ground just to watch her glow.

The Shadow & Silk Trilogy: Book 1: Bloodline