{"product_id":"where-lilies-die-daisy","title":"Where Lilies Die: Dark Mafia Romance (Devil's Garden Series Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADELINA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe made each other a promise in a glasshouse in October and it was two lines long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo lying. And no not-saying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have kept mine. I have kept it through a funeral and a hospital corridor and a kitchen with fifty men in it, and there is one thing I am holding back, and I have written down exactly why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe is holding back one as well.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am twenty-three years old. I run a house with a wall round it and forty men in and out of it, I feed all of them twice a day, and every single one of them calls me signora and means it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey tell you a woman in this world gets smaller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody tells you what happens when she does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI was sold to this family on a Thursday in October.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy March I was the one they came to.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSALVATORE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a thing I have been for eighteen years and I have been extremely good at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am the one who does the arithmetic. I am the one who decides who carries what, and how much, and when they are told, and nobody in this city has ever been hurt by me getting that wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I sat down at my own kitchen table on a Friday night in February and made a small, sensible decision about what my wife could stand to hear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt worked. Nothing happened. She slept.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd the next one was easier.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverybody wants to talk about April. Everybody wants the glasshouse and the four houses and the one sentence I said with her hands on my coat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt does not start there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt starts at a table with a plate on it, with a man who promised her he would not do this, deciding that he knew better than she did what she could carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe was right about all three of the things she said to me that morning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd I am still going to have to stand at the bottom of that hill and let her walk up it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the second book in The Devil's Garden Series. Reading order:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere Roses Bleed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere Lilies Die.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere Orchids Burn.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e328 pages. Kindle edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daisy Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67758680408340,"sku":"B0HKLS9KJT","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/0445\/5444\/files\/81eg0GFLX5L.jpg?v=1792622039","url":"https:\/\/authoralicefox.com\/products\/where-lilies-die-daisy","provider":"Alice Fox Author","version":"1.0","type":"link"}