The Unholy Novice He Claimed

Ronan Draven has spent two years outside St. Agnes, watching Magdalene Holloway from a black car, and Mae has left the blind open.

She arrived with little money, a father prepared to trade her, and a secret she intended to bury once she took her vows.

Then a black lace veil, a gold ring, and a card with three handwritten words, Pray for me, are left beside her bed, and when a man of the Church threatens her, the owner of Boston’s waterfront and of the debt that drove her into the convent answers in blood and demands that she marry him.

His enemies mean to reach his empire through Mae, her father sees one more chance to set a price on her, and life under Ronan’s protection brings locked doors, dangerous secrets, and a husband who had marked her as his long before they met.

Mae is less frightened of his violence than he expects, because she knows a matching darkness in herself, and Ronan has yet to learn if he can trust the woman he would kill to keep before that fixation costs him someone he could never replace.