“No, Dominic.” I stepped between them. “You’re not a murderer.”Catarina raised her fist. “You crazy bitch—”“Enough.” Dominic’s voice was calm. Cold.His eyes locked on mine. “Elizabeth Carrington. Do not mistake my mercy for weakness.”“Dominic, don’t—”The gunshot cut me off. The man collapsed. My heart stopped. Then Dominic slowly turned the gun toward me. AT ME.“Interfere with my affairs one more time… and I promise it’ll be your last.”My lips parted, but no words came. ****She was his weakness. He left everything behind to protect her. Until she was forced to betray him—marrying Harrison Carrington, New York’s most feared billionaire, to save her father’s life. Then she discovered the truth. Her marriage had never been about Harrison. She was only a pawn in Don Falcone’s plan to break Dominic and drag him back into the mafia. It worked. The gentle man Elizabeth loved was gone. In his place stood a cold, dangerous mafia heir who barely recognized her. One man wants to possess her. The other is becoming the very thing she feared. She’s trapped between them—with nowhere to run.Will love be enough to pull Dominic back from the darkness? Or will Harrison’s obsession be the very thing that destroys them?

At 17, Scarlett Brooks was framed for murder and forced to join the Black Scorpion Assassin Academy to protect her newborn daughter.Trained to kill. Forbidden to love. Conditioned to obey. Scarlett became a deadly weapon molded by the Black Scorpions.Years later, Scarlett is sent on a suicide mission to kill Luca Moretti—a brutal mafia king. But when the mission fails and she’s captured, she becomes his prisoner. Scarlett plans to destroy him from the inside. Luca plans to break her. But the more they clash, the more their hatred burns into something darker, hotter—forbidden.In a world of betrayal, blood, and forbidden passion…Who will tame who? And who will survive it?