the Bride in Black Car: A Dark Romantic Suspense

SHE HIRED A DRIVER TO ESCAPE HER WEDDING. THE MAN BEHIND THE WHEEL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD.Evie Vale has eleven minutes to abandon the most dangerous mistake of her life: marrying Julian Thorne, a powerful man who controls every room, every witness-and nearly every road out.Her escape should be simple. Reach the service tunnel. Enter the black Mercedes. Disappear before the vows begin.But Adrian Kade is behind the wheel.The man Evie believed died eighteen months ago is alive, armed with secrets, and connected to the evidence hidden inside her bridal veil. He knows who killed her father. He also knows the cipher could expose a criminal network powerful enough to erase them both.Forced across borders and into locked rooms, underground auctions, dangerous bargains, and a web of calculated betrayals, Evie must decide whether Adrian is her protector, her captor-or the only man willing to give her the one thing no one else has offered: a real choice.Adrian is controlled, dangerous, and hiding a mission that could destroy them. Evie refuses to be rescued on anyone else's terms. But as suspicion turns into forbidden attraction, every unlocked door becomes a temptation-and every touch threatens to reveal more than the truth.The Bride in the Black Car is a high-heat dark romantic suspense featuring: - a runaway bride - a morally gray protector - forced proximity - forbidden second-chance attraction - secrets, betrayal, and criminal conspiracy - explicit but consensual adult romance - a complete romantic endingBook One in the interconnected Black Velvet Sins series.