Kill Me Softly

Riona Voss wakes up in a concrete room, twenty steps from a steel door with no handle on her side. She counts the guards. She names the water stain. She does not think about Celeste. She tries very hard not to think about Celeste. On the other side of the city, Celeste Mara burns the Varela alliance in a single phone call. Signs away the Soriano concession without pausing. Calls in a government contact she had been saving for a war. Her advisor tells her she's destroying everything she built for one person. She says yes without stopping to consider whether he's right. This is the book where the distance finally collapses — not with a grand speech, but with a hospital room, two mugs of terrible coffee, and a file that's been sitting in an archive for nineteen years. The Voss job was not an accident. It was not a rival syndicate. It was an order, given by a man who has been sitting at Celeste's table ever since, patient and perfectly composed, waiting for the right moment to collect. He's been planning this for thirty years. He didn't plan for them to find each other. Kill Me Softly is Book 3 of the Dangerous Women series — slow-burn sapphic romance with dark mafia undertones, a conspiracy nineteen years in the making, and two women who are done waiting. Content warning: violence, captivity, morally grey characters, adult content (18+). Read Books 1 & 2 first.