The mafia demon’s phantom wife
“A magical assassin must marry a half-demon mafia boss to save her brother.”
She can walk through any door in the world, but she can’t outrun the man who owns the shadows.
Charlène Laurent is a phantom of the Italian underworld—a high-end assassin who operates under a lethal signature: a blackened-gold key that turns any locked door into a portal. To buy time for her dying younger brother, Charlène has sold her soul, strangling titans of industry and vanishing before the blood cools. She hides behind a veiled mask, leaving only her piercing, icy-grey eyes and a single birthmark as witness to her crimes.
Lucien De Rossi is the ruthless heir to a modern empire built on blood and ancient, royal tradition. To the world, he is a cold billionaire and an artist obsessed with perfection. But behind closed doors, Lucien is a monster struggling to remain human. Born of a forbidden union between a mafia king and a daughter of the devil himself, he is a half-blood prince with fire in his veins and a darkness that threatens to consume him. He has never felt a spark for any woman—until a mysterious "Ghost" dances with him at his family's annual masquerade.
For the first time in his life, his inner demon falls silent. He doesn't just want her name; he wants the woman who made him feel human for a single night.
The hunt turns personal when Charlène targets Lucien’s private vault. Caught red-handed, she twists her key and vanishes into thin air, but not before Lucien sees them—the same haunting grey eyes from his sketches.
To take his throne, Lucien needs a wife. To save her brother, Charlène needs a miracle. Forced into a marriage of convenience, Charlène enters a world of pearl dresses and deadly secrets, only to realize that the man she was sent to destroy is the one thing more dangerous than herself.
He will turn her world of infinite exits into a gilded cage. And she might be the only one who can survive the monster beneath his skin.