Ruthless Vows - Sutton Kay

A marriage contract was supposed to save her.

Falling in love with a monster was never part of the deal.

Sierra Blackwell has spent her life being managed-by her family's expectations, by their enemies' threats, and finally by a contract meant to keep her alive. Marrying Lorenzo Moretti, the most dangerous man in the room, is meant to be a calculated move. Protection. Power. Survival.

Lorenzo doesn't believe in love. He believes in control, loyalty, and blood-deep vengeance. As head of a criminal empire, he has built his life in shadows, where mercy is weakness and trust is lethal. Sierra is supposed to be another obligation-beautiful, strategic, untouchable.

She becomes everything else.

As danger closes in and old debts demand payment, Sierra refuses to remain a pawn. She claims her place beside Lorenzo, not as a hostage or a prize, but as a partner-his equal in ambition, his counterbalance in light. Together, they build something ruthless and unbreakable: a marriage forged not in innocence, but in choice.

Because loving a man like Lorenzo comes at a cost.

Is she willing to pay it?