Stephen Mitchell

I was a botanist with a quiet life until my deadbeat mob accountant dad sold me to Vincent Inverdale—the ruthless underboss who needed a wife to stop a syndicate war. Now I stand at the altar in lace and fury while he claims me with a kiss that brands my soul. What started as a contract marriage is turning into nights of raw, possessive sex that make me crave the man holding my freedom in his fists, even as rival families circle for blood and his jealousy threatens to burn everything down. The question is: will I destroy his empire... or let this dangerous obsession destroy me?

I woke up in a hospital bed with five years erased and my ruthless protégée Sylvie Inverdale smiling down at me like she hadn't just burned my entire empire to the ground. Now I'm back in the glittering boardrooms I used to own, pretending I don't remember a thing, getting way too close to the woman who destroyed me— the one whose touch still sets my skin on fire. Every lingering stare, every accidental brush of her fingers against mine makes me question whether I want to ruin her... or ruin us all over again in the best possible way.

I was just a quiet court scribe until the night I used forbidden shadow magic to save the king's life. Now the ruthless Declan Stavros has me chained to him as his personal shadow advisor instead of burning me at the stake. Every whispered strategy session and stolen touch in the dark has me wanting the one man whose laws would execute me... and he's becoming obsessed with the only woman who can destroy him.