Marriage & Malice

Broken Heirs, Book 1

By: Trisha Wolfe

Narrated by: James Joseph, Meg Sylvan

From USA Today best-selling author Trisha Wolfe comes a fierce and seductively thrilling Dark Mafia Romance stand-alone as part of the Broken Heirs series.

Rapture. Desire. Need.

The yearning for our passions is the reason we breathe. I've devoted my life to my pursuit of ballet, my escape from the dark underworld I was born into. As the daughter of a made man, I've accepted certain traditions, but after I'm promoted to principal within a prestigious dance company, I'm so close to escaping that world. Until a devil with blood on his hands and an Irish curse inked into his skin tears into my world.

Now passion holds a whole new sinister meaning. With ruination in his steel-blue eyes and me in his crosshairs, Lucian Cross traps me in his gilded cage and uses me to deliver his retribution. Forced to sign a marriage contract, my father traded my life to save his own. I'm bound to Lucian. Owned by a monster who swore an oath of pain and suffering to my family.

Lucian's passion is revenge. Every night he forces me to dance until my breaking point. He wants to condition me to loathe the very thing that once gave me hope. The closer we get to the wedding date, the more entangled I become in his dangerous, tempting world until I'm losing myself to him. His vow is my pain. My vow is not to fall for the enemy. But I can't dance with the devil without getting singed by the fire.

*CW: Please check author's website for full list of content warnings.

©2024 Trisha Wolfe (P)2024 Trisha Wolfe

Excellent writing and performance

As always, Trisha Wolfe delivers. Beautifully written characters who actually made me love the arranged marriage trope (which I didn't think was possible)

Fantastic

I lived it so much. The male narrator was excellent. The female was ok, but the story was fantastic! Recommend!

This is is definitely the best trisha wolfe book soo far

The writing, the plot and the characters 😭🤌🏻🤌🏻 and omg james voice 😭 this man and his voice 🫡 melted

A Real Dark Romance

I have read 100s of mafia dark romances, and this one is the most beautiful and my favorite. A ballerina caught in a world of vengeance who never gives up her passion for dancing. The author masterfully uses dance as the main interaction between the characters. She dances for punishment, for him, to become strong, and for seduction. Unlike other mafia dark romances, there are no sexual situations without consent or BDSM. Well-developed characters and plot. The narration is outstanding.

The angst!

I really enjoyed this book-my only hiccup was the angst between MMC and FMC was loooong, don’t get me wrong I loved it but at over 60% of the book I wanted them to finally get together. A enemies to lovers, mafia, kinda Stockholm Syndrome, forced marriage, unhinged MMC and feisty FMC it was an excellent read overall. Love love love James Joseph’s voice that’s what actually brought me to this book-his voice is 😮‍💨😮‍💨! Meg Sylvan has a very soothing voice and I feel did a wonderful job as Violetta.