SCARLETT

I clean hotel rooms for eleven dollars an hour, and I've been apologising for being alive since the night my sister died in my arms.

Then the man in the garden suite asks for me by name.

He's rude. He's cold. He makes me taste his coffee and won't drink it. He keeps a gun beside his laptop like it's a pen.

And when my mother locks me out in the rain, he's the one who comes to sit on the step.

He takes me into his house with three rules. I break every one of them.

I know what he is now. I've seen what his hands do to the men who touch me. He swears he can't love anyone, that men like him end alone.

I'm in love with him anyway. And someone just put a price on my head.

CAESAR

I rule New York. I've never once raised my voice to do it.

I don't keep women. I don't sleep beside them. What you love is what they take, so I made sure I'd never love anything.

Then a maid lied to my face for a stranger at two in the morning, and I wanted to know what kind of woman does that.

Now she's in my house. In my bed. In my head.

Every man who wants my throne knows exactly where I'm weak.

I'll burn this city to keep her. I'll lie to her. I'll send her away.

What I won't do is let her go.

This is the first book in The Empire of Sin Series. Reading order:

Cruel King.

Brutal King.

Lethal King.

Sinful King.

Savage King.

Wicked King.

Cruel King: Dark Mafia Romance