The Poison in Our Hearts: Dark Mafia Romance (The Poison in Our Veins Book 1)

ALESSIA
My father did not arrange a marriage for me.
He sold access to my blood.
Nikolai Volkov is powerful, ruthless, obscenely wealthy, and dying from a poison no doctor can name. Nine men have already died from it. His father was one of them.
And somehow, the only thing that keeps the poison from finishing its work is me.
My plasma. My veins. My body.
I was supposed to escape my family. Instead, I crossed an ocean and became the wife of a man who knew exactly what I was worth long before I ever knew his name.
His house is full of secrets. His basement holds a doctor, a locked freezer, and answers nobody wants to give me. And every truth I uncover leads back to the same place.
My family.
My blood.
My husband.
The man who needs my blood to survive is also the man who knows exactly how to make it burn.
And the closer I get to the truth, the harder it becomes to separate the monster who bought me from the man I willingly let into my bed.



NIKOLAI
I married Alessia Ferraro for one reason: I wanted to live.
There is a compound inside my body that has already buried nine men. There is no cure. No surgeon who can cut it out. No amount of money that can buy me free of it.
There is only her.
One woman in twenty-three years of searching. One compatible donor. One body capable of giving mine more time.
So I made a deal with her father.
I took his daughter.
And on the day I married her, I already knew the ugliest part of our marriage: if her blood worked, I could never afford to let her disappear from my life.
Then Alessia began asking questions.
About the poison.
About my father.
About the blood taken from her before our wedding.
About why men in Italy have been dying quietly for sixty-five years.
I can control a family, an empire, and every man who walks through my doors.
Alessia is something else entirely.
She watches. She remembers. She finds every secret eventually.
And there is one truth I have kept from my wife that could destroy everything between us.
Because the poison in my veins began with her family.

This is the first book in The Poison in Our Veins Series. Reading Order:
The Poison in Our Hearts
The Poison in Our Blood
The Poison in Our Souls

335 pages. Kindle edition.