Vowed to the Enemy

He married her to secure the peace. She stayed because peace was too small a prize.

Christina Moretti was raised to survive powerful men by becoming whatever the room required.

Michael Kincaid is the head of the Black Vow Syndicate, a man whose permission can move bodies, bury records, and keep two criminal houses from war. When a Moretti soldier is returned dead by a method only Black Vow uses, everyone expects retaliation.

Michael offers marriage instead.

The contract is public. The terms are witnessed. Christina keeps her name, her rooms, her phone, and the freedom to walk out of any building she enters.

What she cannot walk out of is the agreement.

She marries him intending to destroy him from inside his own house. Michael knows it. He gives her access anyway, answers every question completely, and watches the version of her that no one in her family has ever survived seeing.

Then Christina finds the paper both houses have spent fifty years keeping buried.

The founding crime she came to avenge was not committed by one family against the other. It was a trade. One Kincaid signed it. One Moretti signed it. And the living proof of that betrayal is still hidden under a county name that somebody keeps renewing.

To ruin Michael, Christina will have to ruin herself.

To choose him, she will have to become the kind of woman who signs the next instrument in her own hand.

Vowed to the Enemy is a dark syndicate forced marriage romance featuring a morally black hero, an enemy's daughter, arranged marriage, criminal alliance, power-couple darkness, possession and claiming, contracted dominance and submission, praise, restraint, breath play, breeding/pregnancy, and a dark happily-ever-after that never pretends it was clean. A complete, self-contained couple arc set in the Black Vow Syndicate world. Intended for adult readers.