Taking Grace by Haven Snow
He was never supposed to find me.
The Bonaccorso Butcher. A man who speaks in violence and silence and nothing in between.
Carmelo doesn’t ask. He doesn’t explain. He doesn’t stop.
I was eight years old when they took me. They gave me a code instead of a name and placed me inside a system that turned children into inventory. I survived. I disappeared. I became someone else.
And then a man with dead-gray eyes and a knife on his belt walked into my life and said a name I haven’t heard in sixteen years.
Graziella.
He’s not here to save me. I don’t need saving.
He’s here because a promise was made, and Carmelo doesn’t break promises. He breaks everything else.
I spent sixteen years hiding from the people who took me. He’s about to drag me back into the war I escaped, and the only thing more dangerous than the men hunting me is the man protecting me.
Because Carmelo doesn’t protect gently. He protects with blood and blades and the absolute, terrifying certainty of a man who has decided that I am his, and the world can burn for disagreeing.
Tropes include but are not limited to:
Protector Romance
Grumpy x Sunshine (he’s the grumpy one)
Found Family
Touch Her and I’ll End You
Morally Grey MMC
She Heals Him Without Trying
He’d Kill the World for Her
Dark Past / Recovery
Slow Burn
Dual POV, First Person
Taking Grace is the fifth book in the Vicious Kings series by Haven Snow. This series is classified as dark mafia romance and is intended for mature audiences only.
