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He underestimates how quickly his arrival will stir up the local gossip

Playing the part of the happy couple comes easy and soon enough

have no idea he’s in the picture at all

mousy schoolteacher

Why can’t she remember

SWORN IN DECEIT by VICTORIA LUM Bottle Backpack He underestimates how quickly hisHe can destroy anyoneexcept the woman hes sworn to deceive. Elias Kent is Chicagos most dangerous fixera man who plays chess with human lives and always wins. Beneath St. Michaels Cathedral, in the catacombs hidden under the city, he lives for one thing: revenge against the secret criminal empire known as The Association. Lana Anderson was supposed to be leverageuntil the enemy closes in. Elias makes an impossible bargain: an arranged marriage that