Stolen Dove: A Dark Secret Society Romance (Discreet Version) (Sinclairs)

I ran to avoid being auctioned off to a new husband. The man they sent to drag me back must kill me or keep me.

LITTLE DOVE

The Ravens are the most powerful secret society in the world. Their women are called Doves. Their fathers choose their husbands, and when their husbands die, widows go back on the auction block. When a Dove runs, a Talon is sent to drag her back. No Dove has ever gotten away alive.

RETRIEVE. DELIVER. NOTHING MORE.

My husband is dead. I stole thirty thousand dollars from his safe and ran the night of his funeral.

I got three days of freedom. Then Cain Mercer walked into my motel room like he owned it.

He's the Talon they send when a Dove runs. He's never failed a retrieval. He's never disobeyed an order.

Now he's taking me back to Boston, where they'll auction me off to another man like the one I just buried.

My husband spent eight years telling me I was broken. It takes my captor one night to prove him wrong.

Then new orders come through. My husband left one final instruction in his will.

If he dies, I die.

Cain Mercer has never failed. He's never disobeyed.

He's about to do both.

Tropes: secret society - captive to protector - instalust - possessive morally gray hero - on the run - forced proximity - touch her and die - only soft for her