Damiano Gambino

In a world where loyalty is bought and betrayal is paid in blood, Cinthia Mancini is a ghost in her own life. Smart, compassionate, and dangerously soft for a world built on bone and bullet, she is the reluctant heir to a legacy of violence. She's spent years caught between the woman she is and the monster she's expected to become.

On the other side of the trenches stands Damiano Gambino-the cold, calculating prince of a rival empire. Raised in the shadows of war, Damiano is Cinthia's polar opposite: ruthless, disciplined, and forged for the throne.

Once, their families were bound by an unbreakable oath. Now, they are locked in a brutal vendetta that has already tasted too much of their blood.

When Damiano is captured by the Mancini clan, his death is meant to be a statement. But Cinthia intervenes, defying her father and unknowingly saving the man who should be her greatest enemy.

In a life where love is the ultimate treason, they are forced to face a devastating truth: What happens when the heart chooses the one person you're born to destroy?

TW: rape, death, mature content