Blood Oath

When loyalty becomes betrayal and love becomes survival, how much would you sacrifice for the man you were sent to kill? Dante Salvatore has been the Battaglia crime family's most lethal weapon for fifteen years-a soldier whose loyalty never wavered, whose trigger finger never hesitated. Until the Don gives him an impossible assignment: infiltrate witness protection as a federal marshal and eliminate Adrian Cross, the forensic accountant whose testimony could dismantle their entire empire. Adrian knows the system protecting him is compromised.
He's watched marshals rotate through, felt eyes tracking his movements, sensed the inevitable closing in. When Daniel Cross arrives-calm, competent, dangerously attractive-Adrian recognizes something the others lack: genuine determination to keep him alive. What he doesn't recognize is the killer hiding behind those dark eyes. But proximity breeds connection. Coffee becomes conversation. Protection becomes obsession.
And somewhere between safehouse dinners and late-night confessions, Dante commits the unforgivable sin: he falls for his target. Now the Don's patience has expired. A cleaner is coming. And Dante faces an impossible choice-pull the trigger and preserve fifteen years of brotherhood, or betray la famiglia for a man who's shown him what it means to be human instead of just a weapon. In a world where loyalty is sacred and betrayal means death, choosing love could destroy them both. Can a killer find redemption in the arms of the man he was ordered to murder, or will the ghosts of his past claim them before they can build a future?