VERA LOCKE
I WAS RAISED TO BE A WEAPON. HE WAS THE TARGET.
I was raised to be a weapon. He was the target.
Neither of us knew that when I let him take me to bed.
My father calls me the Viper. I run his product, I clean up his problems, and I have never once questioned an order — until he sends me to Boston to find the man who runs the city.
I find him in a nightclub, ruin his shirt, and insult him to his face.
I don't learn who he is until I've already been in his bed.
Vincenzo Marchetti has a dead man's eyes and an ace of spades inked over his ribs, and he is exactly what I was built to destroy. He knows I'm lying. I know he's hunting me. Every conversation between us is a step in a dance neither of us can afford to lose.
But my father has been lying to me since I was ten years old. My mother has been dead for seventeen years — allegedly. And the moment either of us tells the truth, one of us dies.
I was sent here to end him.
I'm no longer certain I can.
A full-length dark mafia romance. Book One of two — this book does not end with a happy ever after.
Content warning: graphic violence, torture, on-page murder, drug and human trafficking, and explicit sexual content.
18+ only.
about vera
Vera Locke writes dark romance about people who were never given the option of being good.
She is interested in what happens to someone raised as an instrument — and in the moment they work out what they were built for. Her heroines are rarely sympathetic and never sorry.
She lives in Europe, drinks too much coffee, and is currently writing the second half of Elena and Vincenzo's story.