Vicious Kingdom (Dynasty of Queens #3)

She came back to haunt him—but he chained her to his world and vowed she’d never belong to anyone else.

Annaliese

Everyone thinks he’s the predator—

But they’ve never met me.

Leonard Baldwin—a.k.a. Leonardo Mancin—is a billionaire kingmaker with a brutal reputation and a vault of secrets. Untouchable. Unbreakable. Unreachable.

Until I made him look at me.

I studied him. Stalked him. Slipped through the cracks in his empire until I was close enough to taste the power on his skin.

He thinks he’s in control, but I’ve been pulling the strings from the start.

Every move he makes brings him closer to me—closer to the truth.

And when...

She came back to haunt him—but he chained her to his world and vowed she’d never belong to anyone else.

Annaliese

Everyone thinks he’s the predator—

But they’ve never met me.

Leonard Baldwin—a.k.a. Leonardo Mancin—is a billionaire kingmaker with a brutal reputation and a vault of secrets. Untouchable. Unbreakable. Unreachable.

Until I made him look at me.

I studied him. Stalked him. Slipped through the cracks in his empire until I was close enough to taste the power on his skin.

He thinks he’s in control, but I’ve been pulling the strings from the start.

Every move he makes brings him closer to me—closer to the truth.

And when the truth comes out?

He’ll never be able to leave me.

Leonardo

She was never meant to be mine.

But I took her anyway—because if I cant have peace, she cant have a fairytale.

They call her a modern day princess. The darling of the media empire. The perfect face for a perfect empire built on lies.

And I’ve bled too much in the shadows to let her walk into the light unscathed.

I stole her name, her freedom, her future.

Locked her in my world of smoke, blood, and broken vows.

Not for ransom. Not for power.

I did it because the thought of her in white—walking toward another man—was enough to send me spiraling.

She was supposed to be my revenge.

But now?

She’s my reason to burn the world down.