Kit McKenna

They used her daughters as leverage. Now they're running out of men to hide behind. After losing her husband, Nyx Cirillo rebuilt her life from the ground up-stronger, sharper, untouchable. Blackroot is secure. Her daughters are protected. The world sees a composed widow and a powerful businesswoman. It doesn't see the predator she's becoming. When the men responsible for her family's destruction begin disappearing, the deaths look unrelated.
Isolated. Clean. But vengeance has a way of escalating, and with every calculated move, Nyx feels something inside her settling too comfortably into the kill. She can finish dismantling the powerful consortium that hurt her family. Or she can step back before she loses the part of herself her daughters still need. Shepherd Calloway has returned to her life determined not to let her fall into darkness alone.
This time, he's staying. This time, love isn't a memory, it's a choice. But somewhere beyond the mountains, powerful men have started noticing the silence. And they're watching the widow. The Widow is a dark, slow-burn romantic suspense about revenge, restraint, and the dangerous line between justice and appetite.