City of Thorns

The night in New York is always more perilous than the day. Lucian Darlington is the uncrowned king of this city. At the grave of his late, closest friend, he took in a girl whose eyes burned with defiance and named her Seraphina Montclair. He ruthlessly wiped out three rival families just to give her a safe home. But the rebellion rooted in Seraphina Montclair’s bones was a wildfire that had refused to die for six years. Night after night, she would slip out of this ironclad estate and return reeking of cheap alcohol and tobacco smoke. Tonight, when he intercepted her in the living room once again, this power game between father and daughter finally tore aside all pretenses. The rain soaked the gravestones in the cemetery, and it soaked every hidden entanglement within the walls of this estate.