The Lies We Tell

She spent six years trying to forget him.
The Bureau gave her sixty days to destroy him.

Claire Mancini has read every file, every surveillance report, every redacted name on every federal warrant tied to Vincent Sovrano's empire.

She knows he is dangerous. She knows he is ruthless.

She knows the quiet, brilliant man who argued constitutional law with her until midnight in a university library—then walked her home through the rain—might not exist anymore.

She walks into his penthouse anyway.

Vin Sovrano has been waiting.

He knew what she was before she came through his door. He let her come anyway... because Claire is the one variable that turns the coldest man in Manhattan into something feral and terrifying in its certainty.

He built his empire on patience and precision.
He will burn every inch of it before he lets someone touch her.

Some cases end with a conviction. This one ends with a confession.
The only question is whose...



Book one in a trilogy. Friends to lovers. Undercover heroine. Obsessive, possessive mafia hero. Morally grey on both sides.

This story contains explicit content, graphic violence, organized crime, and dark themes.

If you need your heroes redeemable and your heroines uncompromised—this is not your book.
If you've been waiting for something that doesn't look away—welcome.