I bid on a painting to keep arguing with him. I never expected to fall for the one Vaughn brother I was never supposed to want.
Rafferty Vaughn is charm without consequences — until a stubborn woman with a sharp tongue and a debt she didn't create walks into his life and ruins his one rule: never want anything you can't simply buy.
Delphine Voss is two years into an engagement she never agreed to. Her late father's debt of honour binds her to Luka Kastrioti, heir to the organisation whose fragile peace with the Vaughns cost this family everything. Breaking it doesn't just cost her — it could reignite a war.
She should stay away from Rafferty. He should stay away from her. Neither of them is very good at should.
When jealousy turns to danger and Rafferty's own family closes ranks to protect a peace bought in blood, Delphine has to decide how much of her freedom she's willing to fight for — and whether the man who once cut her down with careful, deliberate cruelty has actually earned the right to stand beside her when it matters.
Some debts were never really owed. Some engagements were never really binding. And some men have to learn, the hard way, that loving someone properly means asking — not deciding.
RECKLESS REIGN is a standalone-satisfying, dark contemporary mafia romance and Book Three in the Vaughn Reign series — forbidden, enemies-adjacent, with a cruel-but-redeemable hero, a heroine who fights for her own freedom, and heat throughout. HEA guaranteed.
Genre: Romance
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