{"product_id":"a-rose-for-vengeance-daisy","title":"A Rose for Vengeance: Dark Mafia Romance (A Rose Full of Thorns Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROSALIE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty-seven contracts. Forty-seven bodies. Forty-seven black roses left behind for the men who paid to have someone buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have never missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCesare Orsini is supposed to be number forty-eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wealthy, calculating mafia boss with a private army, a reputation that precedes him, and enough enemies to keep me employed for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI enter his bedroom with a loaded gun and a black rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe is sitting in a chair, waiting for me.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe knows my name. He knows how I work. And when I pull the trigger, nothing happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow I am bleeding on the floor of his house, surrounded by men who want me dead, while the man I came to kill offers me a glass of water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCesare wants something from me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI intend to find out what it is before I put a bullet between his eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that he has started giving me things I have never had. A room with an unlocked door. A place at his table. The freedom to tell him no.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when he looks at me, I find myself wondering what those careful hands would feel like against my bare skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI was trained to kill men like Cesare Orsini. Nobody taught me what to do when I wanted one of them in my bed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCESARE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI spent three years looking for a woman whose employers have made certain she does not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo photograph. No address. No real name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly a trail of dead men and black roses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I finally find her, I arrange for her to come to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe arrives through my bedroom window with a gun in her hand and blood on her clothes. She is smaller than I expected, considerably more dangerous, and furious when she discovers I have been expecting her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have every reason to keep her close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people who trained her have information I need, and Rosalie is the only person who can lead me to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she watches every door. Counts every step I take toward her. Sleeps with a weapon close enough to reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I am discovering that I enjoy the moments when she forgets to be afraid of me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI paid a fortune to bring an assassin into my house. I had not anticipated wanting her to stay after the job was done.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEspecially when she starts looking at my mouth instead of my hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know what she is capable of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know what will happen if she discovers how much I arranged before the night we met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor now, she is sleeping in my house, eating at my table, and learning precisely how much trouble she can cause me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I have never enjoyed being in danger quite so much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first book in the A Rose Full of Thorns Series.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading order:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Rose for Vengeance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Rose for Blood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Rose for Burial\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e308 pages. Kindle edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daisy Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67758680539412,"sku":"B0HKFC4G2B","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/0445\/5444\/files\/8186ExGjBYL.jpg?v=1792622044","url":"https:\/\/authoralicefox.com\/products\/a-rose-for-vengeance-daisy","provider":"Alice Fox Author","version":"1.0","type":"link"}