Mafia's Twisted Rites: A Forced Marriage Thriller Romance

Her sister died behind Blackwood University's iron gates. Shannon Hayes has forged her way inside to find out why.The elite students who call themselves the Order control far more than campus life. They control the records Shannon needs, the people who could help her, and the punishment for asking the wrong questions. Then Aiken Lane catches her looking where she does not belong.Aiken is the Order's most feared heir, raised to protect its secrets. He knows Shannon is lying about why she came to Blackwood. She knows he could end her search with a word. Yet every warning he gives her feels like a choice between the powerful family that made him and the woman determined to expose it.As Shannon uncovers what happened to her sister, the Order turns its attention on her. Aiken may be the only person who can get her out alive. Trusting him could also cost her the evidence she came to find-and make her the next secret Blackwood buries.Mafia's Twisted Rites is an adult dark-academia romantic suspense about obsession, campus power and a dangerous alliance against a secret society. Contains violence, coercion and psychological tension.