Lazarus Bride

A dark marriage romance. Hitman hero, a staged death, a stolen name, and one isolated house on the water.

Dual POV. Standalone. Happily ever after.

Roman Vale makes people disappear for the Doyle organization. There are two ways to do it. A grave, or a lazarus: a death on paper, a body in the water, a clean new name for whoever walks away. A grave is cheap. A lazarus costs ten times as much.

He is paid for a grave. The name on the page is Wren Halloway.

A GRAVE OR A NAME. PICK ONE.

They told me my father drowned. I audit my own family's foundation for a living, I am very good at it, and three weeks ago I found the line that says otherwise.

Then a man came into my kitchen at two in the morning. He did not kill me. He burned my car with a stranger inside it and told the world I was gone.

Now I live in his house. I wear his wife's clothes. I answer to her name in front of the city, in front of the organization that ordered my death, and in front of the man who loved the original. Ivy Vale went off a bridge three years ago and was never recovered. Her husband never filed the certificate. Somebody is going to explain that to me.

He should have pulled the trigger. He is going to have to make me dead twice before this is finished, and he is going to say my real name first.

Because somebody signed a check for my life.

And I have never once left a column unreconciled.

Things to know about LAZARUS BRIDE

• Hitman hero who is very good at one terrible thing and no good at anything else
• Fake identity, forced proximity, one house, one bed, and a dead woman's closet
• A heroine who shoots first and negotiates second, and who walks into her own memorial
• Gothic bones: an isolated house on the water, a first wife nobody buried
• Explicit and open door, with consent spoken out loud
• First person, present tense, strictly alternating POV
• Standalone. No cliffhanger. They both get out.
• Content warnings: contract killing, a staged death and identity fraud, gun violence, drowning, the death of a parent, a parent as the antagonist, grief, incarceration, and explicit sexual content. A full content note is printed inside the book.