Where Quiet Hearts Scream

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Watching my sister marry her soulmate should have been the happiest day of my life but instead it was </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the day my life ended</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The handsome hotel guest who caught me from falling listened to my dreams and spun me into a web with his rough thumb and whispered words is not the innocent man I thought he was. He is someone else entirely.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And as it turns out he never wanted me-he wanted Boston. So he and my brother-in-law made a deal: Boston's underworld for my hand in marriage.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I'm engaged to man I don't know whose icy gaze can freeze the warmest of hearts and whose roared threats can make the most fearsome bow down. When he finally sees me as more than a piece of collateral </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>cold screams in the dead of night turn to heated gasps in dark doorways</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But scars run deep beneath the Band-Aid. Will our marriage of convenience remain just that? Or will his persistence peel away my protective layers allowing me to finally live my truth?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>TROPES: Mafia romance ~ Arranged marriage ~ Virgin bride ~ Touch her and d^e ~ Innocent FMC ~ Possessive MMC</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A note from Victoria: Where Quiet Hearts Scream </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>can be read as a standalone but the experience will be better if you start with book 1</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Where Dark Hearts Devour. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Please read the trigger warning.</span></p><p></p>