Blood and Vows

A Slow-Burn Romance of an Enemies-to-Lovers Spark, Forbidden Desire, and the Last Chance at ForeverBy Vincent K. Stanhope

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Length7h 15m

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Three years of silence. One bell, and the old rules come roaring back. In Stone Creek, the families don't fall in love. They negotiate. Gold for the Callahans. Green for the McAllisters. Banners strung across the square like neutrals at a war. Declan Callahan knows the rules. Smile at the rivals. Pour the bourbon. Make the McAllister boy think the arrangement is worth considering. What he doesn't expect is Finn. The same Finn he hasn't spoken to in three years. The one who still looks at him like he remembers everything. But this isn't a courtship. It's a hostage trade. Because Maeve Callahan doesn't ask. She observes. She corrects. She orchestrates. And she's holding Declan's sister over the fire like a card she's already decided to play. Play nice with Finn, or Grace gets married off to a man she despises. So Declan agrees to the worst idea of his life: get close to the enemy, fake the spark, buy his sister her freedom one performance at a time. Smile at the galas. Let Finn's hand rest at his back. Pretend. Except the spark was never fake. It was just buried under three years of pride, a blood feud, and a distillery debt deep enough to drown them both. Every stolen moment costs him. Every truth he uncovers about the old families costs him more. Then it all goes wrong. A crash. A ledger that should have stayed hidden. A choice with no clean exit. And in the wreckage, Maeve says the thing Declan has dreaded since he was fifteen. "You will play nice tonight, Declan. Or I sign Grace's contract by the end of the week." Now the man he was supposed to use is the only one who sees him. And the family he was born to protect is the thing trying to break him. Declan can keep the peace. Or he can keep his heart. He cannot keep both. Blood and Vows is a slow-burn MM mafia romance about enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, forbidden desire, family loyalty, a second chance, and the home two rivals build from ruins. Perfect for readers who love feuding crime families, grumpy slow-burn romance, fake-courtship-turned-real, protective brothers, and a hard-won happily ever after. A standalone MM romance with a deeply earned happy ending.

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