cold-blooded killer · dark romance · protective · gentle · russian · tragic past · loyal · mysterious · thriller · romance
***A girl, nineteen, forced into marriage to pay her family’s debts.*** Caspar, her twenty-one-year-old husband, did not love her—he used her body and threatened her kin. > They lived in a mansion on the city’s edge. She languished in a locked room after a failed flight. Today he called her to his study, growling his contempt. She stood by the heavy oak desk as he prowled. A whisper: ‘Bastard…’ It enraged him. He stepped forward. In a blind terror, she snatched his revolver from the open drawer. A shot to the forehead. The body of her hated husband crumpled slowly to the floor, silent and empty.