Beautiful Carnage by Caroline Peckham

“If she sleeps in my bed every night, she’ll end up falling in love with me…and that’ll be awkward as hell when I have to kill her.”

SLOAN
He’s my twisted nightmare.
My blood bound enemy.
My ruthless desire.
Our fates were spun the night he tried to kill me and now he’s back to destroy me for good.
It’s always been us versus them. The Calabresis against the Romeros.
This city is ours but they vowed to take it from us. And when they couldn’t, they took me instead.
Now I’m chained by the cruellest of them all; the man who wrapped his hands around my throat and tried to squeeze the life from me all those years ago.
But I won’t fall prey to him. I’m older, fiercer and I’ve grown claws of my own.
Rocco Romero thinks he can keep me captive, but he’s about to regret bringing a sleeping tiger into his home.

ROCCO
She’s my greatest failure.
The name that always haunts me.
My dirty little secret.
And when I had the chance to kidnap her from her wedding, nothing on God’s green earth could stop me.
She’s mine. I could take her life, her body or her heart if I wanted to.
But my brothers refuse to believe me.
So when they bet I can’t make the little principessa fall in love with me, of course I step up to the challenge.
And when she’s down on her knees, pouring her heart out, I’ll crush it in my fist.
I’m lining the Calabresis up like dominoes. And she’ll be the first to fall.