BLOOD OATH & VELVET: A DARK SAPPHIC MAFIA MARRIAGE OF HATE, HUNGER, AND FILTHY, SOUL-RUINING OBSESSION by Nyra Blackwood

They were supposed to hate each other until one of them bled out.

Valentina Moretti — the Widowmaker — just put three bullets in her uncle’s chest and took the crown of New York’s most ruthless crime family. No mercy. No lovers. No weakness.

Sienna O’Malley swore on her brother’s grave that she would burn the Moretti name to ash.

Instead their dying fathers force a truce sealed in gold and blood: an arranged marriage between the two women who would rather slit each other’s throats than share a bed.

The wedding is held in a deconsecrated cathedral under gun barrels. Sienna walks the aisle in crimson silk and nothing underneath, daring Valentina to look. Valentina waits at the altar in black velvet, already hard, already starving.

What begins as hate-fueled punishment quickly becomes something far more dangerous.

Possessive fingers under boardroom tables. Knives pressed to soaked folds in wine cellars. Public, shameless oral in neutral territory while rival families watch. Blood-smeared rescues that end with one queen eating the other out in the middle of a massacre.

They kill together. They come together. They burn the old rules down together.

Every time Sienna snarls “I hate you,” her cunt clenches harder around Valentina’s strap. Every time Valentina whispers “mine,” Sienna bites deep enough to scar.

Hate was supposed to keep them sharp. Instead it made them ravenous.

Now the city belongs to two queens who rule side by side — one hand on a gun, the other buried wrist-deep inside each other.

And the only truce they still honor is the one they make with their bodies every night.

Dark sapphic mafia romance. Arranged marriage. Enemies-to-obsessive-lovers. High spice. Knife play. Public play. Blood play. Praise & degradation. Strap-on sex. Morally gray women who ruin each other in the sweetest ways. HEA with very sharp edges.

For readers who want their mafia romance filthy, brutal, and unapologetically queer.