{"product_id":"sacred-scars-norah-preston-9798272065605","title":"Sacred Scars: A Dark Mafia Assassin MM Romance Book 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree years ago, I was sent to destroy him. Instead, he destroyed me.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDANTE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy orders were simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfiltrate The Shepherd's organization. Get close to his son. Extract information. Eliminate the target.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'd done it a hundred times before. Different faces. Different lies. Same ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Mikhail Volkov wasn't supposed to be different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe wasn't supposed to look at me like I was human. Wasn't supposed to make me laugh at his terrible jokes. Wasn't supposed to touch me like I was something worth saving instead of something designed to kill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor three months, he was mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate nights and stolen kisses. Whispered confessions in the dark. A love I was never supposed to feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen my handler gave me the order. Complete the mission. Kill his father. Walk away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I had to choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe job that made me. Or the man who made me human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI chose wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it cost us everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMIKHAIL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stranger who walked into my father's restaurant changed my life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Cross. Military background. Killer smile. Eyes that were dead until they landed on me-then suddenly, terrifyingly alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI should've known better. Should've seen the danger. Should've run.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, I fell. Hard. Fast. Completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor three months, he was everything I'd never let myself want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe told me I made him feel real for the first time in twenty years. Told me he'd never felt this before. Told me he loved me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he cut my throat and walked away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeft me bleeding on a warehouse floor while my world shattered around me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI survived. Barely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the man I was died that night alongside my trust, my hope, my ability to feel anything except rage and emptiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor three years, I've been waiting. For answers. For revenge. For closure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor him to come back so I can figure out if I want to kill him or save him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHIS IS HOW WE FELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the reunion in Sanctified Sin. Before the warehouse confrontation. Before the impossible choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is where it started.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first meeting. The slow seduction. The three months when an assassin learned to love and a mafia prince learned to trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the night that destroyed them both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norah Preston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798272065605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Norah Preston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170682020095,"sku":"9798272065605","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-scars-norah-preston-9798272065605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}