Lure of Lethality (Cosa Vitae Duology, #2)

Before New York’s underworld crowned her First Lady, a beautiful starlet walked away from a man who loved her.

Thirty years by the Don’s side have taught Flavia Sforza that beauty is a fortress and loneliness its toll. These days, the woman who once melted camera lenses finds her only solace in casinos she secretly rigs and tarot she can’t, because Death keeps dealing itself.

The undertaker stalking her orbit knows each restless ghost in her past—because he is one of them. He has blueprints for her husband’s downfall, for her dynasty’s collapse, and for the effigy he thinks she still is. Yet amid Connecticut’s winter chapels and the heat of forbidden nights, Ruyan must confront the one clause he never anticipated: whether his meticulously planned vengeance can survive the lure of the real, aging, complicated woman behind a legend.

The question is no longer who will bury whom, but if a heart long encased in ice can beat again before it’s placed on a slab in one of his own coffin beds.