{"product_id":"the-poison-in-our-hearts-blake","title":"The Poison in Our Hearts: Dark Mafia Romance (The Poison in Our Veins Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALESSIA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy father did not arrange a marriage for me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe sold access to my blood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNikolai 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.\u003cbr\u003eAnd somehow, the only thing that keeps the poison from finishing its work is me.\u003cbr\u003eMy plasma. My veins. My body.\u003cbr\u003eI 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.\u003cbr\u003eHis 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.\u003cbr\u003eMy family.\u003cbr\u003eMy blood.\u003cbr\u003eMy husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe man who needs my blood to survive is also the man who knows exactly how to make it burn.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNIKOLAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI married Alessia Ferraro for one reason: I wanted to live.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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.\u003cbr\u003eThere is only her.\u003cbr\u003eOne woman in twenty-three years of searching. One compatible donor. One body capable of giving mine more time.\u003cbr\u003eSo I made a deal with her father.\u003cbr\u003eI took his daughter.\u003cbr\u003eAnd on the day I married her, I already knew the ugliest part of our marriage: \u003cstrong\u003eif her blood worked, I could never afford to let her disappear from my life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Alessia began asking questions.\u003cbr\u003eAbout the poison.\u003cbr\u003eAbout my father.\u003cbr\u003eAbout the blood taken from her before our wedding.\u003cbr\u003eAbout why men in Italy have been dying quietly for sixty-five years.\u003cbr\u003eI can control a family, an empire, and every man who walks through my doors.\u003cbr\u003eAlessia is something else entirely.\u003cbr\u003eShe watches. She remembers. She finds every secret eventually.\u003cbr\u003eAnd there is one truth I have kept from my wife that could destroy everything between us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBecause the poison in my veins began with her family.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first book in The Poison in Our Veins Series. Reading Order:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poison in Our Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poison in Our Blood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poison in Our Souls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e335 pages. Kindle edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blake Smoke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67758676902164,"sku":"B0HJ11DN71","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/0445\/5444\/files\/81XGnKOwaSL.jpg?v=1792621996","url":"https:\/\/authoralicefox.com\/products\/the-poison-in-our-hearts-blake","provider":"Alice Fox Author","version":"1.0","type":"link"}