Killing Hope

Age Gap Forced Proximity Dark Mafia Romance

De: Vivienne Shade

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

I was born to be their secret.
I grew up praying I wouldn’t be their sacrifice.

For three hundred sixty-four days a year, my mother is warmth and affection.
On my birthday, she becomes a monster with murder in her eyes.
Every year I wake up wondering if this is the night she finally succeeds.

This year, I wake with her hands around my throat.
By dawn, the bruises on my neck are hidden under diamonds.

I’m the only daughter of a powerful crime family, raised behind guarded walls and stricter rules.
I smile for the cameras, accept the necklace that hides the marks she left, and walk down a staircase into a ballroom where I’m nothing more than a prize to be displayed.

I’ve been trained my whole life to remember one thing:
I am untouchable. No suitors. No choices. No love.

Then I’m ordered to dance with the heir.

He’s older, colder, the man everyone else fears to cross.
One waltz with him feels like finally breathing after years of drowning.
His hand at my waist, his voice in my ear, his eyes fixed on mine like he can see straight through every lie my family wrapped around me.
I know I should be afraid. Instead, I silently beg the music not to end.

Years later, I’ve carved out a fragile kind of freedom:
med school by day, dissecting bodies and dreaming of a life that belongs to me;
locked-down princess by night, still bound to blood oaths and rules written long before I was born.

Then my armored convoy is ambushed.
Metal twists. Glass shatters. My brother falls.

I wake up in the trunk of a car.
Bound. Barefoot. Dragged into a stranger’s house and turned into leverage in a war I never chose.
I escape once. I run. I bleed. I get hunted down again.

And somewhere far away, my father makes a desperate call
to the one man powerful enough to bring me home.

The heir.

To him, I’m two things:
the sheltered daughter of an ally… and the girl he asked for once and was denied.

This time, he names his price before he goes to war.
He’ll hunt down every last man who touched me.
He’ll drag me out of hell himself.
And in return, I’ll become his.

I think rescue means freedom.
He knows it’s the beginning of a marriage forged in blood, secrets,
and a hunger that’s been waiting to burn for years.

I was never meant to survive this life.
Now the only man who can save me is devoted enough to kill Hope.

Killing Hope is a steamy, suspenseful dark mafia romance told in dual POV, featuring an untouchable mafia princess who refuses to stay a victim, a ruthless heir who will burn empires for the woman he was promised, childhood trauma, overprotective brothers, kidnapping and rescue, an age-gap arranged marriage, and an obsession that feels a lot like war.