Gloves Off: Bloodbound Bride

My father’s blood is still warm on my hands when Locke Gates shoves me into his bulletproof car and locks the doors. “You’re on the kill list too,” the mafia heir says. “Become my fiancée—or die before sunrise.” For three months, I must wear his ring, sleep under his protection, and pretend the way his touch makes me tremble is part of the act. At our engagement party, Locke bites my finger and lets my blood fall into his wine, claiming me before the entire Irongate family—while my FBI ex hunts us both. Then I find a photograph of Locke’s mother hidden among my father’s belongings, dated the night a fifteen-year-old bombing tore our families apart. If the truth proves our fathers were enemies, why does Locke look at me like I’m the one person he was born to protect—and will I choose the dangerous fiancé who owns my blood or the FBI agent who wants to take me away?