Pride

<h4>Deceitful. Arrogant. Cold.</h4><p>Those are the three perfect words to sum up my husband to be.</p><p>After little deliberation my parents decide Isiah Darcy is the perfect suitor.</p><p>He's rich British and the perfect ally for the Benedetto family business.</p><p><br></p><p>I can't stand him but they don't care what I want.</p><p>He's stuck up and has little respect for women.</p><p>Once we're married he makes it painfully clear I have no rights.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm nothing more than a puppet.</p><p>A way for him to get what he's always wanted.</p><p>Revenge on my family for something that happened years ago.</p><p>My husband wants to tear my family apart.</p><p>He underestimates me as I'll do everything in my power to stop him.</p><p>And yet all is not as it first appears as I get to know the villainous Isiah Darcy.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Pride is the first book in the Once Upon a Villain Series by Bianca Cole. This story is a dark arranged marriage romance story with dark themes and certain subjects that may upset the reader. It has no cliffhanger a happily ever after ending and can be read as a standalone.</strong></p>