Ravaged Hearts: Special Edition Cover (Zulu Series)

He's supposed to keep her alive. Falling for her was never part of the mission.

Vaughn Decker is a man carved from violence and survival—his scars a roadmap of every war he's fought and every line he's crossed without looking back. When his handlers assign him to protect Hope, the sheltered daughter of one of the most ruthless cartel bosses in the world, he treats it like any other job. Get close. Stay cold. Bring down the empire from the inside. Simple.

Nothing about Hope is simple.

She has a way of seeing through the armored walls he's spent years reinforcing, finding the fractured man beneath the operative. Her quiet strength unsettles him more than any weapon ever has, and that terrifies him—because Vaughn knows better than anyone that caring about someone in this world is the fastest way to get them killed.

As the cartel tightens its ruthless grip and shadows close in from every direction, the line between protector and prisoner blurs into something neither of them can name. Vaughn is playing a dangerous game with Hope's life, her father's empire, and his own shattered heart—and the cost of losing any one of them is unthinkable.

Dark, visceral, and achingly tender in the most unexpected moments, *Ravaged Hearts* is a mafia romance that refuses to flinch. For readers who crave their love stories soaked in danger, moral complexity, and tension so thick it cuts like a blade.

Some missions change everything. This one might destroy him.