Deadly Bonds: A Dark Romance Novel (Syndicate Killers Book 2)

Some women are drawn to dangerous men. Addison never wanted to be one of them—until Rowan Kingsley makes that choice for her.

Raised by a mother paralyzed by paranoia, Addison has spent her whole life staying small, staying quiet, staying invisible. She knows how to disappear. What she doesn't know is how to handle a man like Rowan Kingsley—the coldest, most formidable member of the notorious Kingsley crime syndicate—when his dark eyes lock onto her like she's the only thing worth seeing in a world he's long since stopped caring about.

Rowan is not a good man. He's made peace with that. Carved hollow by violence and soaked in sins he'll never confess, he has no business wanting someone as luminous as Addison. But obsession doesn't ask permission, and Rowan has never been the kind of man who walks away from something he's decided is his.

Their collision is electric, dangerous, and deliciously inevitable—a grumpy, battle-hardened killer completely undone by the one woman bright enough to cut through his darkness. But Addison's past isn't as buried as she believed, and the threat closing in on her is more ruthless than anything even Rowan has faced.

In this scorching second installment of the Syndicate Killers series, Juliet Coven delivers a dark, visceral romance where the line between protector and pred