A Death Kiss of Vengeance

He promised Kat a year of revenge against the people who hurt him, with freedom only after that work was done, and he never promised he would survive it intact.

Six months after they buried the first name, every person from his rotten past that they kill draws the old demons tighter and smothers what is beginning to grow between them.

The angry boy he once was keeps returning, yet Kat does not run or flinch, even as her parents try to pull her from his scars into a gilded prison and a marriage to someone wealthy.

Blood and pain tempt him to push her away from the darkness staining him rather than toward another man, but she keeps choosing him while one man on the list uses his connections to close in.

He survived that man once and can only hope they will this time, since the vengeance meant to repair him is wearing him down with each life he takes, and golden-haired Kat remains the only thing keeping him sane as he faces any depravity required to end the danger to her and the others.