Chicago’s Thorned Rose

Kate Harrington designs the world’s most beautiful wedding gowns, yet she lives in a marriage that is a slow-motion crime scene. A decade ago, Julian Harrington broke his body to save her life; today, he stands by as his mistress wears Kate’s gowns, desecrates her family graves, and sabotages her womb. In a syndicate built on blood and loyalty, Kate is a mafia queen who has been stripped of everything by the very man who swore to protect her. But the girl who spent her life trembling at the edge of high-rises is finally done fearing the fall. Julian thinks he is the architect of her misery, but Kate is about to prove that when a woman has already lost her future, she has nothing left to do but dismantle his empire brick by bloody brick.