{"product_id":"where-roses-bleed-daisy","title":"Where Roses Bleed: Dark Mafia Romance (Devil's Garden Series Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADELINA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy father sat down in my uncle's back room on a Thursday night owing four million dollars he did not have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe offered them the house. He offered them the restaurant. He offered them my sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he offered them my little brother, who is nine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd the man at the end of the table said my name instead.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight days later I married Salvatore Marchetti in a chapel with four people in it, in a dress a stranger paid for, and moved into a house that everybody in New York calls the Devil's Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know what he is. Everybody knows what he is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat nobody told me is that he does not shout, he does not take, and he does not lie, and that he would rather stand in a doorway for four seconds than put one hand on me I had not asked for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI was sold to him on a Thursday.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy the third week I was walking down that corridor on my own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSALVATORE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have never wanted anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is not a boast. It is the entire reason I am still alive. You cannot take anything off a man who has nothing on the other side of the wall, and I have spent eighteen years making certain there was nothing out there at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I sat down in a restaurant in Bensonhurst on the worst night of my life, and a girl in an apron put a plate in front of me that I had not ordered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was seventeen. She did not know my name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have sent her one rose a year ever since, and I have never signed a single one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow she is in my house, at my table, in my mother's garden.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer father is going to cost her everything, and there are five men in this city who decide what happens next, and every single one of them now knows she exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey can have my hands. They can have the rest of my life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey are not having her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first 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\u003e344 pages. Kindle edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daisy Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67758680342804,"sku":"B0HKLLHTF5","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/0445\/5444\/files\/919T7AVLOaL.jpg?v=1792622037","url":"https:\/\/authoralicefox.com\/products\/where-roses-bleed-daisy","provider":"Alice Fox Author","version":"1.0","type":"link"}