Mercy of Monsters

MERCY OF MONSTERS

Romantic Crime Thriller / Dark Romance

Standalone with Series Potential • Dual First Person POV • ~90,000 Words • HEA

She was sold to a killer. He was ordered to keep her. Neither of them expected mercy—or what it would cost.

Giuliana Rossi was a literature student with ink-stained fingers and a life measured in library hours—until her father traded her like currency. Sold into an arranged marriage to secure a criminal alliance, she is delivered to the estate of Domenico Vitale—the Phantom—an enforcer so lethal his name is spoken in whispers and his kill list hangs in a locked room. He is not a husband. He is a weapon. And Giuliana is his unwanted assignment.

But Domenico does something no one in his world expects: he offers her a choice. He will not touch her without consent. He gives her the east wing, curated bookshelves, and a door she can lock from the inside. It is the first mercy Giuliana has received since the night her father’s men pulled her out of class—and it terrifies her more than the violence, because mercy from a monster means the monster is real. What begins as captivity becomes something far more dangerous: trust. Training. A slow, devastating unraveling of every wall between them—until the night he kisses her in the garden and she stops pretending she wants to leave.

Then the cameras are discovered. Viktor—the man who owns them both—has been watching. Assassins breach the estate. Giuliana kills four of them with hands that held Manzoni a month ago.

And when her father’s betrayal is finally exposed, Giuliana does not run. She walks into his house, records his confession, drives home bleeding, and uses the evidence to negotiate the one thing no one in this world gives freely: autonomy.

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A scorching, brutal dark romance about a woman who was sold as a pawn and became the most dangerous piece on the board. ♥