What happens when a monster falls for the girl meant to fear him?

Jordyn Winslow came to Sicily for her sister’s wedding—a fairytale turned funeral in the blink of an eye. On the morning they were meant to fly back, Jordyn watches in horror as her parents’ car is struck on the way to the airport, killing them instantly. One heartbeat. One breath. And her world is left in ruins.

With nowhere else to go, and nothing left back home in London she’s forced to stay Sicily with her sister—grieving, alone, and under the roof of her sister’s new in-laws.

The Russo family...

What happens when a monster falls for the girl meant to fear him?

Jordyn Winslow came to Sicily for her sister’s wedding—a fairytale turned funeral in the blink of an eye. On the morning they were meant to fly back, Jordyn watches in horror as her parents’ car is struck on the way to the airport, killing them instantly. One heartbeat. One breath. And her world is left in ruins.

With nowhere else to go, and nothing left back home in London she’s forced to stay Sicily with her sister—grieving, alone, and under the roof of her sister’s new in-laws.

The Russo family is powerful. Dangerous. Built on blood and silence.

And none more feared than Ares Russo.

They call him Il Mietitore. The Reaper.

He’s cold. Promised to another. Untouchable.

And the brother of her sister’s new husband.

She was never his to want.

But that didn’t stop him from craving every soft breath, every stolen glance, like a man starving.

He’s claimed every first she had to give—every kiss, every touch, every breathless moan.

Her first taste of desire. Her first real sin.

And the one man she was never supposed to belong to.

Now the lines are crossed, the bodies are piling, and in Ares’s world—

love isn’t just forbidden… it’s fatal.