Fintan Doyle doesn't do mistakes. Six days of careful surveillance on a quiet flower shop should have told him everything he needed to know about Bianca Castellane — whether the estranged niece of the woman who nearly destroyed two crime families was actually as disconnected from her aunt's empire as she claimed. Six days should have been enough.
It wasn't. The moment she called his bluff across her own counter, cover blown in under ten minutes, Fintan found himself reconsidering every careful rule he'd built his entire quiet, controlled life around.
Bianca spent eleven years building an honest life specifically to escape everything her family name represented. She doesn't want to remember her aunt. She doesn't want to be a suspect, a witness, or a weapon in someone else's investigation. And she definitely doesn't want to fall for the terrifyingly patient man who walked into her shop under false pretenses — except staying angry at someone who treats her like an equal, who protects her without trying to manage her, turns out to be a great deal harder than she expected.
When her cooperation makes her a target for the man who trained her aunt in the first place, forced proximity becomes the only option — a remote cabin, a threat that finds them anyway, and a fierce, hard-won love neither of them saw coming. But Bianca's family legacy runs deeper than either of them realizes, and the conspiracy that's haunted three families across three decades isn't finished yet.
A dark, enemies-to-lovers mafia romance about choosing who you become instead of what you were born into. Bitter Legacy is Book Three of The Kilbrennan Ties, closing the multi-book conspiracy arc that began in Cruel Mercy — following Fintan and Bianca as they face down the deepest architect of manufactured chaos yet.
It wasn't. The moment she called his bluff across her own counter, cover blown in under ten minutes, Fintan found himself reconsidering every careful rule he'd built his entire quiet, controlled life around.
Bianca spent eleven years building an honest life specifically to escape everything her family name represented. She doesn't want to remember her aunt. She doesn't want to be a suspect, a witness, or a weapon in someone else's investigation. And she definitely doesn't want to fall for the terrifyingly patient man who walked into her shop under false pretenses — except staying angry at someone who treats her like an equal, who protects her without trying to manage her, turns out to be a great deal harder than she expected.
When her cooperation makes her a target for the man who trained her aunt in the first place, forced proximity becomes the only option — a remote cabin, a threat that finds them anyway, and a fierce, hard-won love neither of them saw coming. But Bianca's family legacy runs deeper than either of them realizes, and the conspiracy that's haunted three families across three decades isn't finished yet.
A dark, enemies-to-lovers mafia romance about choosing who you become instead of what you were born into. Bitter Legacy is Book Three of The Kilbrennan Ties, closing the multi-book conspiracy arc that began in Cruel Mercy — following Fintan and Bianca as they face down the deepest architect of manufactured chaos yet.
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