The Dealer & The Teacher

Charlie has only ever known responsibility and sacrifice. As an original heir of The Twelve Families, he has been raised to follow his duty of protecting their secrets. But one woman threatens it all with her soft smiles and aversion to cursing. Evelyn is his opposite in every way with a big heart and dreams that allow him to think of a future.

What created the legacy?

The Gambler & The Lady

Zenith, the time at which something is at its most successful or powerful. Her name should have warned Rian that she'd be the peak, the highest point of his life. He's obsessed over her for years, but he finally get the golden opportunity he's been waiting for.

What's a better way to fuck a man over than fucking his wife?

The Liar & The Psychopath

Quentin is obsessed with beauty, and Alia is obsessed with death. Together they make all the blood, violence, and destruction a work of art.

In the end they save each other, but they have to destroy one another first.

How do you destroy someone who is already broken?

The Lover & The Oblivious

Khalilah has watched every romcom imaginable while she's been hiding at home after a mistake when she was a teenager. She's slowly re-entering society when she gets her own tailored meet cute - a stranger comes to her defence. But he doesn't turn around.

What choice does she have than to 'research' his life to create another one?

The Lawyer & The Thief

Decker is stuck watching his family from the outside in when he meets his thief. Time moves on, and she goes from stealing his phone to his sanity as they're thrust into hell without their senses.

What would you do to survive?

The Fighter & The Mistress

Zidane has always been the third wheel, but it all changes when he meets Camille. They aren't aware of how their families are linked until she shows up in his house with her husband at her side.

They’ve both been hurt, betrayed, and left fighting alone.

But can they dream again?

Viripotent

[və·rip′ə·tənt] adjective
Fit for a husband; marriageable. 
Able to sire children(obsolete ~ circa 1600)

The Devil & The Heiress

Inessa has been raised to know that the only freedoms she will be granted comes from a strong alliance. But the offer changes. She won't be trapped in an arranged marriage. It will instead become her pathway to true freedom. 
Accepting a deal from the devil is never a good start, even if her grandfather, as Pakhan, also signs beside her.

What would you do to leave?

Three things made Vlad Vartanov, three things kept him alive, and three things are to be protected. 
Marrying the Pakhan's granddaughter will ensure the protection of the only three things that will be left of his life after a lifetime of living for vengeance. 
One goal has remained his motivation since he was 13 years old: get to the top of the Bratva, then destroy everyone. 

But three syllables make him question everything. In-ess-sa

Viparious

[vl-per'i-3s] adjective 
Life renewing, life producing.
Recorded use ~ 1840)

The Devil & The Heiress ⎯ Part II

Inessa learns that Vlad may be just when it comes to his opponents. However, he will never allow the same integrity in their marriage. 

But she’s fighting for more than herself.

After a lifetime of being the holder of secrets, vlad finds himself in the dark surrounded by the monsters of his past. his burdens multiply each day and his spiral into vengeance might cost him more than his sanity.
He's forced to decide between the promises he once made and the ones being asked of him.

But some skeletons refuse to remain buried.

A marriage built on a mutually beneficial agreement is now surrounded by a series of cataclysmic events with one question ⎯ what will he lose to keep them?

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Vulnerate

The Cursed & The Artist ⎯ can be read as a standalone

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