The Butcher's Wife

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My new husband hates me.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Even a wicked man fears </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dom the Butcher</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> named for the way he'll carve flesh from bone with only a whispered command from his sinister Don.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To me he's just Dom the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>captivating older man</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> who's always protected my sister and me from the worst of our vicious world. Now he's the man I've forced into marriage to avoid a violent end.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But my desperate plan seems destined to fail when Dom barely acknowledges my existence in his lonely penthouse. He refuses to touch me claiming his hands are too stained with blood for a sweet innocent Mafia princess like me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I've never been sweet. And I haven't been innocent in years.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That girl he thinks I am? She's dead. I'm her second-rate twin sister who's taken her place hiding in plain sight while my enemies close in craving revenge.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With death and ruin haunting me at every corner I'm running out of time to crack Dom's resolve.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Soon he'll be asked to make an impossible choice between loyalty to his Don and love for his wife.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I'm determined to bring the Butcher to his knees.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My husband will love me.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Butcher's Wife is the second book of the Sacred Vows series but can be read as a standalone with a traditional HEA. It contains dark themes morally grey characters graphic violence and explicit spice. Full triggers are listed on the author's website.</span></p>