He caught me breaking into his warehouse looking for my brother's killer.
He should have let the police take me.
Instead, he took me home.
Ransome Vaughn runs London's oldest crime family with a stillness that
terrifies grown men — and he doesn't do anything without calculating the
cost first. So when he finds a mouthy, grieving journalist digging through
his shipping records at midnight, the smart move is to make her disappear.
Instead, he keeps her.
Wren Ashworth doesn't scare easily, not even in a house full of armed men
and a boss who can end her with a phone call. She wants answers about her
brother's murder, and she's not leaving without them — not for a locked
door, not for a man who says her brother's name like a threat, and not for
the way her pulse won't stop reacting to him.
But the deeper she digs, the more she uncovers a betrayal inside Ransome's
own family — and a war on London's docks that's already cost her everything
once. Ransome will burn his empire to the ground to keep her safe. The
problem is, so will the men trying to take her from him.
Some cages are built to protect. Some hearts are ruled by ice until the
right person melts them. And some men only learn how to love once they've
already learned how to lose.
Ruthless Reign is a full-length, standalone-HEA dark mafia romance featuring
a possessive, icy hero, a sharp-tongued heroine who refuses to be managed,
forced proximity, a slow-burn enemies-to-something-else arc, and a
guaranteed happy ending. Book 1 of The Vaughn Reign series.
He should have let the police take me.
Instead, he took me home.
Ransome Vaughn runs London's oldest crime family with a stillness that
terrifies grown men — and he doesn't do anything without calculating the
cost first. So when he finds a mouthy, grieving journalist digging through
his shipping records at midnight, the smart move is to make her disappear.
Instead, he keeps her.
Wren Ashworth doesn't scare easily, not even in a house full of armed men
and a boss who can end her with a phone call. She wants answers about her
brother's murder, and she's not leaving without them — not for a locked
door, not for a man who says her brother's name like a threat, and not for
the way her pulse won't stop reacting to him.
But the deeper she digs, the more she uncovers a betrayal inside Ransome's
own family — and a war on London's docks that's already cost her everything
once. Ransome will burn his empire to the ground to keep her safe. The
problem is, so will the men trying to take her from him.
Some cages are built to protect. Some hearts are ruled by ice until the
right person melts them. And some men only learn how to love once they've
already learned how to lose.
Ruthless Reign is a full-length, standalone-HEA dark mafia romance featuring
a possessive, icy hero, a sharp-tongued heroine who refuses to be managed,
forced proximity, a slow-burn enemies-to-something-else arc, and a
guaranteed happy ending. Book 1 of The Vaughn Reign series.
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