The Bride on His Kill List

He came to my father’s funeral with a marriage contract.

He never told me my name was already on his kill list.

Celeste Armand has spent years proving she belongs at the head of her family’s shipping empire. But when her father dies hours after uncovering something hidden inside the company’s cargo routes, powerful men begin demanding her signature before his funeral is even over.

Then Kellan Rourke walks through the door.

He is the cold, dangerous heir to the Accord—a criminal organization that keeps the city’s most violent factions from going to war. He offers Celeste the only protection strong enough to keep her alive: a marriage that will turn any attack against her into an attack against the entire syndicate.

What he does not tell her is that the Accord gave him a second assignment.

Protect Celeste while she remains useful.

Kill her if she discovers too much.

When armed men try to drag her into a van, marriage stops looking like surrender and starts looking like the only way to survive.

Celeste agrees, but she refuses to become a silent wife or a prisoner disguised as someone being protected.

Every restriction must have a reason. Every order can be challenged. Every boundary belongs to her.

Kellan accepts her rules.

He never expected to admire them.

Forced beneath the same roof, they follow a trail of forged documents, altered security records, poisoned medicine, missing money, and hidden cargo routes.

The deeper they investigate, the clearer it becomes that someone inside Celeste’s company helped arrange her father’s death—and may be using her marriage as part of a much larger plan.

Kellan is ruthless enough to destroy anyone who comes for his wife.

Celeste is intelligent enough to recognize that the most dangerous secret may be the one her husband is keeping from her.

Every touch makes their marriage feel more real. Every new clue brings Celeste closer to the truth that could activate her execution order. And when she learns exactly what Kellan agreed to before placing a ring on her finger, desire will no longer be the greatest risk between them.

Because she may have fallen for the man protecting her.

But he was sent to become her husband, her jailer…and, if necessary, her executioner.

In a world where every contract hides a weapon, their marriage may be the deadliest agreement of all.

Celeste and Kellan’s story is complete and ends with a hard-won happily ever after.