Leon Castellan wants one thing: peace.After spending years living a life far removed from anything resembling normality, Leon chooses the simplest life he can find. He takes a job at a convenience store, lives quietly on the outskirts of Riverbend County, and tries to stay away from trouble.Then Mia Volkov walks into his workplace.She's beautiful, spoiled, sheltered, and completely fascinated by the world outside the luxurious life her father built around her. She's also the daughter of Viktor Volkov, the ruthless patriarch of the Volkov Bratva.Their first meeting should have been nothing more than a wealthy girl buying candy.Instead, Mia becomes determined to see Leon again.And before Leon knows it, the peaceful life he worked so hard to build begins falling apart.An assassination attempt exposes a secret buried within his family. Leon discovers that the father he never knew was once the patriarch of the powerful Castellan Mafia Family, and that factions within the family are now hunting him because of his bloodline.But Leon has no intention of becoming a Mafia heir.He has only one goal: revenge.Moving into Marlek City, Leon begins searching for the people responsible for destroying what little family he had left. To gather information, he takes a job at an elite restaurant frequented by the wealthy and powerful.Unfortunately, that's where his problems multiply.Mia's father wants nothing to do with the mysterious young man who has captured his daughter's attention. Worse, Mia has already been promised in a contract marriage to Lucien Cassano, heir to the rival Cassano Mafia Family.Now Leon finds himself caught between rival Mafia families, political alliances, assassination attempts, an increasingly attached Bratva princess, and a woman who refuses to stop calling him "sugar."But there's something nobody knows.Not Mia.Not Viktor.Not the Cassanos.Not even the people hunting the Castellan heir.The quiet young man working behind a convenience-store counter is hiding a past that could shake the entire underworld.Leon Castellan isn't merely a Mafia heir.He's Saint.A legendary operative whose name once struck fear into the world's most dangerous organizations.And behind that name lies an even greater secret.Because before Leon chose an ordinary life, he was something the world of crime learned to fear.The Monarch of War.As Mia's innocent affection develops into something neither of them expected, Leon's two worlds slowly begin to collide.And when the truth finally comes to light, everyone will have to ask the same question:What happens when the daughter of the Bratva falls in love with the man the underworld should have feared most?

Lux Orcus's weekend checklist: ✔ Almost died. ✔ Accidentally awakened a ridiculous power. ✔ Got recruited by a suspicious organization. ✔ Acquired three mentally unstable teammates. Now monsters, hidden powers, ancient secrets, and increasingly terrible life decisions are hunting him. Apparently, his bloodline is tied to something far older—and far more dangerous—than he ever imagined. Surviving his enemies might already be impossible. Surviving his team? Much worse.

Some things aren't supposed to wake up.He doesn't remember how long he slept. Only that he shouldn't have both — the wings that mark him as one thing, and the halo that refuses to admit he ever stopped being another. Whatever he is, the world wasn't built to have a name for it.He wakes to find that world unrecognizable. Vampires and werewolves no longer hide — they run companies, sit behind glass towers, walk in daylight like they've always belonged there. But something is wrong beneath the surface of things. A weakness that was never supposed to last this long. A lie old enough that no one alive remembers it is one.And then there's her.She doesn't know what she is. Doesn't know that her blood carries the answer to a question four factions have spent centuries pretending was already settled. Doesn't know that the stranger she bumped into on the street was never really a stranger to any of this at all.Two vampires want her. Two werewolves want her. Not all of them for the same reasons.But only one of them already knows exactly what it will cost to let her keep everything she has — and hasn't told her he's willing to pay it.Some debts don't get repaid. They get erased. Along with whoever owed them.