Bound By Lies: A Dark Arranged Marriage Romance (Fatal Alliances Book 1)

She is promised to one Salvatore brother. It's the other one who refuses to let her go.

In the blood-soaked world of rival mafia empires, Vivienne has always been a bargaining chip—a mafia princess traded like currency between dynasties. Her engagement to Matteo Salvatore is a political arrangement she's learned to accept. Convenient. Controlled. Safe.

Then there's Adrian.

Reckless. Merciless. A man carved from darkness and shaped by sins no confession could absolve. Adrian Salvatore answers to no one—not his family, not the empire he was born into, and certainly not the rules that should keep him away from his brother's fiancée. Yet from the moment he steals her first kiss beneath the moonlight at her own engagement party, he makes one thing devastatingly clear: he has no intention of stepping aside.

Vivienne fights him at every turn. She threatens. She begs. She reminds herself exactly what kind of man he is—the kind who destroys everything he touches. But Adrian doesn't want her surrender. He wants something far more dangerous than that.

Then one night, one unforgivable moment, strips away every boundary she's built between them. And what crumbles isn't just her composure—it's the carefully constructed lie that she ever truly hated him at all.

In Lylah James' dark and intoxicating world of fatal alliances, the most treacherous enemy isn't the man who ruins you. It's the one who makes you want him to.