The Enemy's Kiss

She was raised to hate him. He was trained to ruin her. One kiss could start a war. Valentina DeLuca has spent her life becoming exactly what her father's empire demands: polished, silent, untouchable. In Oakhaven's brutal mafia underworld, she is the perfect DeLuca daughter, a weapon wrapped in silk and ice, trained to smile while men decide her future. Then a stolen ledger vanishes. Inside it are murder orders, police payoffs, family secrets, and proof that someone has been profiting from the blood feud tearing Oakhaven apart. Valentina needs the ledger to claim power before her father sells her into an alliance she will never survive. But she is not the only one hunting it. Dante Vescari is the South Side's most feared enforcer, the butcher prince of a rival empire and the man Valentina was born to despise. He wants the ledger to destroy her family. He wants revenge for the blood her name represents. And he wants Valentina with a hunger that is becoming harder to bury beneath hate. When the first attempt to recover the ledger nearly gets them both killed, Valentina and Dante are forced into a dangerous alliance. Every secret they uncover points to the same impossible truth: their families may not be enemies by accident. The war that shaped them may have been engineered from the beginning. Now the enemy heirs must move through Oakhaven's rain-slicked alleys, guarded estates, underground clubs, and blood-soaked territory lines with both families closing in. Trusting each other is treason. Touching each other is worse. But as hatred turns to obsession and obsession becomes something neither of them can control, Valentina and Dante must decide what matters more: the bloodlines that raised them, or the dangerous need that could burn both empires to the ground. In Oakhaven, every kiss is a betrayal. And the enemy may be the only one worth choosing.