“Three Vitale men. Three women the institutions were supposed to protect. One empire where the venom was never in the family — it was in the system that sold them out.”
The Venomous Vows trilogy follows three women pulled into the orbit of the Vitale crime family — a federal witness extracted by the boss she was meant to cage, a rival family’s blade who covers fire with the enforcer she was trained to kill, and an undercover FBI agent burned by her own Bureau and hidden by the intelligence director she was sent to destroy. Each woman enters as an enemy. Each stays by choice. And each discovers that the institutions meant to protect them — federal custody, family honour, the Bureau itself — were the real threat all along.
Serpent’s Claim opens with a crime boss walking through federal security to take the witness meant to destroy him. Viper’s Kiss puts two trained killers from rival families in a safehouse together after an ambush — and lets them unearth a twenty-year lie built on patricide. Cobra’s Sting closes the trilogy with an agent classified as acceptable loss, a ten-day race to survive, and a reckoning that brings three couples, three conspiracies, and three institutional betrayals into one integrated family.
The heroes are morally grey. The heroines are weaponized, competent, and done being expendable. And the vows that hold are the ones no institution sanctioned — the venomous ones.
Book 1 — Serpent’s Claim (Sofia & Enzo)
“When a federal witness is extracted from her safe house by the crime boss she was built to destroy, the only thing deadlier than the men hunting her is the alliance she never intended to choose.”
Sofia Moretti spent ninety-one days in FBI protective custody before Enzo Vitale walked through federal security and took her. He’s the head of the Vitale crime family — the predator her testimony was supposed to cage — and instead of ransom or execution, he offers her a partnership: her forensic skills against her own father, her life in the hands of the man every prosecutor in New York wants dead.
What Sofia unearths inside the Vitale organization should destroy them. What she discovers about her own Bureau might destroy her. Because someone in federal law enforcement is selling her to the coalition that wants her silent — and the only man who hasn’t lied to her yet is a monster with calloused hands, careful eyes, and the terrible patience of a man who has decided, without asking, that she is his.
Trust as survival, survival as trust. Institutional betrayal vs. chosen loyalty. And a weaponized competence that cuts both ways.
Alternating first person (Sofia & Enzo) • HEA
Book 2 — Viper’s Kiss (Gianna & Luca)
“Two trained killers from rival families cover each other’s fire in an ambush neither of them planned — and discover the twenty-year vendetta that forged them into weapons was built on a single well-protected lie.”
Gianna DeLuca has spent twenty-eight years being the blade her father sharpened. Three weeks before an arranged marriage seals a political alliance, she sits across a negotiating table from Luca Vitale — the enforcer of the family she was trained to destroy. The ambush that follows should kill them both. Instead they cover each other’s fire.
Luca takes her to a Vitale safehouse, leaves her armed, and returns with food the next morning. Neither of them escapes.
What they unearth together is that the vendetta that made them into weapons was fabricated — a patricide dressed up as a rival-family execution, two decades of violence built to justify territorial expansion. The truth should save them. Instead it makes them the targets of every faction the old lie protected, including the men who raised them.
Inherited identity vs. chosen self. Truth as freedom. And a love built on the refusal to be the weapons they were made to be.
Alternating first person (Gianna & Luca) • HEA
Book 3 — Cobra’s Sting (Isabella & Dante)
“An FBI agent burned by her own Bureau and concealed by the intelligence director of the family she was sent to destroy must survive the coalition that bought her agency — and each other.”
Special Agent Isabella Russo has lived as Isabelle Ross inside the Vitale crime family for eighteen months, building a RICO case that would dismantle a three-generation empire. Three weeks from extraction, her emergency signal is burned by her own handler and she is classified as acceptable loss.
The man who finds her isn’t the enforcer — it’s Dante Vitale, the family’s intelligence director, and instead of executing protocol he abducts her to a safehouse no one else knows exists.
What follows is a ten-day race to survive the coalition that bought the Bureau, the brothers she must not be caught with, and each other. The trilogy’s finale brings three couples, three conspiracies, and three institutional betrayals into one integrated family — and closes the Venomous Vows trilogy with its hardest, most intimate reckoning.
Identity as performance. Choosing to be seen. And a love that survives every duty it was built to betray.
Alternating first person (Isabella & Dante) • HEA
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