Paid In Blood

Nina Taylor thought she had found her fairy tale in Marshawn Bennett-a man of immense power, dark secrets, and an even darker obsession. But behind the glitz of Manhattan penthouses and the romance of a Jamaican destination wedding lies a brutal, suffocating reality. As Marshawn's grip tightens and the lines between protector and captor blur, Nina finds herself trapped in a gilded cage built on violence.
When an inevitable betrayal tears the empire apart, Nina is left with a bullet-riddled heart and a final, cryptic inheritance: two hundred million dollars, a fortune in diamonds, and a name for the son she carries-a name that connects her to a past she never asked for. Now, in the aftermath of a king's murder, Nina must decide: will she vanish into the shadows, or will she use the very empire that destroyed her husband to forge a new future?