Ruinous Bride

RANSOM

In gritty New York City, I own everything I could need: a sky rise in Manhattan, a luxury hotel, and the two hottest nightclubs in the country.

But I want the gorgeous club waitress that I can't stop watching.

One bloody night, Corinne stitches me up with a steady hand in the back room of one of my nightclubs. Apparently, she's no stranger to violent men or their illicit money. Intrigued, I made the worst mistake possible.

I go digging for her backstory. She's promised to Julian Vance, the man who used to be my best friend and betrayed me for a fortune. Now I have a reason to take her: ice-cold revenge.

She's untouchable. She's off-limits. She's tempting me in a way that I didn't realize was possible.

But she doesn’t know the lengths I will go to return Julian’s backstabbing… or to have pretty Corinne in my bed, wearing my ring.

CORINNE

I'm on the run from everyone, hiding in plain sight by working at the Candy Club. When I get the chance to touch Ransom Keane, the man my so-called fiancé despises, I don't flinch. After all, it's not my first time stitching a bullet wound.

Up close, Ransom's every bit as dark, intense, and tantalizing as he seems. Then my real identity gets leaked before I can find out whether he kisses as well as I want him to.

Instead, I'm forced into a hasty decision with deadly consequences: run again and hope that Julian never finds me, or enter the Initiation, a twisted auction that sells the entrants to the highest bidder.

The Initiation is my only exit. So I put my own name in it. Then Ransom shows up to bid.

Because I'm playing a game Ransom can’t know about. And if anyone finds out, it's not just my life that will be forfeit.