The Mafia King's Auction Bride

At her own engagement party, twenty-one-year-old Aria is drugged by her own uncle, stripped bare, fitted with a diamond collar, and sold on the underground auction block. The bidding climbs from half a million to three million — and the hammer falls to a pair of ice-blue eyes: Raphael "Raven" Crowne, 34, mafia king, killer of countless men, whose heart is rumored to be buried in his late wife's coffin. He buys her for a lifetime of torment. She thinks hell has begun — but she doesn't know that the man who chains her with gold, yet softens when she cries, will one day topple kingdoms for her. She vows never to love him. But every time her body trembles under his fingertips, it betrays her soul. He vows to use her for revenge only. But the first time he takes a bullet for her, he's already lost. When the truth surfaces — her father killed his wife and her mother too, and she is the true Crowne heir missing for years — the game of hate and desire burns into the ultimate war of blood and roses.