TWISTED MINDS II Series by SANDI WBW, DEVA MAHESA, AGUNG NARENDRA

I thought I was trading one monster for another. I had no idea I was marrying the devil himself. For twenty-two years, surviving my abusive father meant making myself invisible. But when his illicit empire crumbles, he uses me to settle the score, putting me on a manifest to be sold to a ruthless cartel. Then, the Reaper of Rome kicks down my door. Lucian Visconti is the Capo dei Capi of the Italian Cosa Nostra... moreI thought I was trading one monster for another. I had no idea I was marrying the devil himself. For twenty-two years, surviving my abusive father meant making myself invisible. But when his illicit empire crumbles, he uses me to settle the score, putting me on a manifest to be sold to a ruthless cartel. Then, the Reaper of Rome kicks down my door. Lucian Visconti is the Capo dei Capi of the Italian Cosa Nostra. He is a lethal, heavily tattooed apex predator who rules the underworld with an iron fist. He pays my father’s massive ten-million-dollar debt with one horrifying condition: I become his wife. Locked inside his high-tech, brutalist fortress, I brace myself for a nightmare. But my new husband doesn't want to break me. He wants to worship me. He hands me a loaded weapon and promises to slaughter anyone who looks at me twice. But Lucian’s protection is a gilded cage built on a foundation of massive, psychotic lies. He didn't just stumble upon my auction. He engineered it. He stalked me from the shadows, systematically bankrupted my father, and manipulated my entire reality just to make himself my only sanctuary. And the darkest secret of all? I’m not an Italian nobody. I am the lost heiress to the Russian Bratva—and my biological father has just sent an elite army to Rome to take me back. Now, with a syndicate war raging at my front gates, I have to make a choice. Walk away and claim a foreign throne. .. or stand beside the obsessed monster who ruined my life, and help him burn the rest of the world to ashes. Vows of Ruin is a dark, intense mafia romance intended for mature readers. It contains extreme violence, moral ambiguity, and a ruthlessly possessive anti-hero. Tropes Included:. Dark Arranged Marriage. Obsessive / Stalker MMC. Touch Her and Die. Hidden Identity / Bratva Heiress. Villain Gets the Girl. Feral / Badass FMC Awakening. less

He didn’t take the princess. He took the lie. Elena Rostova is a ghost in a crimson silk corset. Forged by the cold halls of Quantico and hardened by the shadows of her past, she was built for one to infiltrate the Bratva and pull the trigger. She played the part of the oblivious mafia princess perfectly—until the doors exploded and the Ghost came for her. Mikhail Volkov is the Pakhan—a man who rules through silence and military-grade violence. The world thinks he snatched a disposable decoy... moreHe didn’t take the princess. He took the lie. Elena Rostova is a ghost in a crimson silk corset. Forged by the cold halls of Quantico and hardened by the shadows of her past, she was built for one to infiltrate the Bratva and pull the trigger. She played the part of the oblivious mafia princess perfectly—until the doors exploded and the Ghost came for her. Mikhail Volkov is the Pakhan—a man who rules through silence and military-grade violence. The world thinks he snatched a disposable decoy. They’re wrong. Mikhail didn't choose the princess; he chose the woman who had been haunting his surveillance tapes for six months. He didn't build a mountain fortress for a hostage. He built it for the only woman who ever made him want to survive. Twenty-three days in the dark. Twenty-three days of shared silences, clinical tests, and a protector who knocks before he enters. As the lines between predator and prey blur, Elena discovers the most lethal deception of the Bureau didn't send her to be rescued. They sent her to die. Now, with a life growing inside her and a "Scorched Earth" execution order hanging over their heads, Elena has to. Is she still the agent sent to kill him? Or is she the Queen of the Midnight Syndicate ready to burn the world down to keep what is hers? Lethal Deception is a high-tension, standalone dark mafia romance featuring a possessive hero, an elite undercover heroine, and a forced proximity "he falls first" dynamic. less