Akash
At twenty, Aubrey Hale expected to be planning midterms. Instead, she's planning a wedding — to a stranger.
Dante Vescari, the widowed underboss of Kansas City, needs a wife to keep his seat. He chooses Aubrey for one cold reason: marrying her puts her father — the family's trusted advisor — under his own roof, where Dante can watch him. Because Dante knows the secret that could burn the whole family down: Edmund Hale has been meeting a federal agent.
What Dante doesn't know is that Aubrey already knows too. She followed her father to the courthouse. She saw the badge. She heard the deal.
Now the girl with paint on her hands is marrying the most dangerous man in the city, hiding the secret that could hang her father — while the man she's marrying hides the very same secret, for a very different reason.
Two liars. One house. Six weeks until the wedding.
And someone is already setting fires to see which of them breaks first.
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