The Vendetta Clause

The marriage was designed to stop a war. Keira Brennan intends to use it to expose the man she blames for her brother’s death.

Forensic accountant Keira Brennan trusts numbers because people lie. Six years after her brother died inside a locked, burning warehouse, the Vicari name still stains every unanswered question.

When peace between two powerful crime families demands a bride, Keira takes her cousin’s place and marries Gio Vicari with a private objective: follow the money, uncover the truth, and leave her new husband with nothing.

Gio is controlled, dangerous, and far too observant.

He keeps a black case no one is allowed to touch and carries the truth about Declan Brennan’s final night like a loaded weapon.

Keira expects a monster. Instead, she finds a man who respects her intelligence, negotiates every boundary, and cooks for her as if tenderness could erase the secrets between them.

It cannot.

A terminal burns. Municipal records disappear. Hidden payments connect both families to a conspiracy built years before the wedding. And page nine of their marriage agreement may transfer more than money—it may give their real enemy control of everything.

Keira and Gio made rules: no lies, no surveillance, and no violence disguised as protection.

But vengeance does not survive cleanly inside a marriage, and desire cannot make betrayal harmless.

The closer they come to the truth, the more dangerous their alliance becomes—and the harder it is to know whether exposing the past will save them or destroy both families.

To survive, Keira must decide what justice will cost. Gio must decide whether loving his wife means protecting her... or handing her the evidence that could ruin him.

Dark, suspenseful, and emotionally charged, The Vendetta Clause is a complete standalone romance told in dual point of view, with explicit consent and a hard-won happily ever after.