Bound By Betrayal

They call him Ghost.

An assassin so feared the underworld speaks his name like a warning - no witnesses, no mercy, only a silver coin left behind beside the bodies.

Seraphina Moretti has spent her entire life surrounded by monsters pretending to be men. As the sole heir to one of the most powerful crime families in the country, she knows how to survive: never trust anyone, never show weakness, and never let people close enough to destroy you.

But when someone starts trying to kill her, her father hires the last person she ever wanted near her.

Ghost.

Cold-eyed. Sharp-tongued. Infuriatingly calm.

A man who treats violence like instinct and danger like a joke.

At first, Sera thinks he's insufferable.

Ghost thinks she's reckless.

And every conversation between them feels like flirting seconds away from turning into a knife fight.

But beneath the sarcasm and tension, something darker grows.

Because the more time Ghost spends protecting Sera, the more obsessive he becomes. The more he learns her habits, memorizes her smiles, and starts treating her life like something worth destroying entire empires over.

There's just one problem:

Sera has no idea the man slowly stealing her heart is tied to the worst tragedy of her life.

And if she ever discovers the truth-

Ghost might finally become the monster everyone warned her about.