House of Bane and Blood

Camilla Marchese is heir to the most notorious crime family in Lynchaven. Her family's railway syndicate is sliding toward bankruptcy. When Nicolai Attano, head of the rival Attano family, offers to clear the debt, the price is her hand in marriage, and her name.

The match is not a truce: Nico wants Milla's help finding the Collector, a kidnapper terrorizing Remnant Row and turning the city's two halves against each other. Catch him before her twenty-first birthday, and she walks away free. Fail, and the debt and the danger both come due.

The hunt drags Milla into a district where remnant magic and arcane science compete for the same alleys. Her marriage keeps giving her reasons to trust the man she was raised to hate. Old family secrets surface as the case narrows, and the wedding that was meant to buy her time starts costing her something else.

House of Bane and Blood opens the Vows of Vengeance duet. It is a rivals-to-lovers fantasy romance set on a post-industrial magical isle, closer to gaslamp noir than fairy tale. A marriage of convenience runs on top of a kidnapper's trail.