Vows of Blood and Silk

A brutal sacrifice. A lethal deception. An obsessive claim that will burn a city to the ground.
Adelle Song has spent her entire life as a ghost in her own home. Brutalized by a sadistic stepfather and tormented by her golden-child stepsister, she is finally sold to the highest bidder to keep her dying mother on life support. Her inescapable fate? To take her sister's place in an arranged marriage to a paralyzed billionaire, broken by tragedy.
But when Adelle walks down the aisle, there is no wheelchair.
Gregory Wu is no helpless invalid. He is the terrifying, lethal warlord of the city's most ruthless mafia syndicate, and his "paralysis" was nothing but a trap to lure his enemies out of the shadows. Gregory's empire is built on blood and retribution, and he has been waiting for the perfect moment to utterly destroy the Song family.
What he never anticipated was the fragile, fiercely resilient woman they sacrificed to him.
Thrust into a violent underworld of human trafficking, betrayal, and cartels, Adelle expects her new husband to be the monster who finally breaks her. Instead, she discovers an intoxicating, deeply terrifying protector who will stop at nothing to claim her soul.
In a world where family is poison and mercy does not exist, Adelle must shed her innocence to survive. And Gregory will happily slaughter anyone who dares to leave a mark on what is his.