Bride by Initiation (Paperback)

From International bestselling author Maggie Cole comes her highly anticipated secret society, deliciously dark, next-generation Mafia series about two lifelong friends. Sean O’Malley Jr. and Zara Marino have a similar obsession with their fathers’ secrets, but discovering the truth requires them to surrender to each other and the unknown of their Underworld vows.

If secrets and lies, desires and denials, bonds and betrayal didn’t exist, Sean O’Malley would stay my friend forever.

That’s not the case.

There are two things we’ve always wanted but were off the table.

First: The truth about our fathers.

Second: Each other.

So when a mysterious man shows up with a branded skull on his hand, speaking in riddles about an Underworld he claims we’re meant to reign in, it’s too tempting not to get sucked into the forbidden.

Even if it means sinking deeper into the darkness, testing all our boundaries, and clinging to the friends we used to be and the vows we’re now bound to for eternity.

Bride by Initiation is a standalone with interconnected characters, and book one of The Underworld series. This dark, secret society, Mafia, friends to lovers, forbidden, first real love, marriage pact romance is not meant for the faint of heart. Expect violence, taboo, and graphic scenes.

In my father's day, Mafia wars existed all over the world. Crime families formed alliances for protection against their enemies. Bridges were built or burned with secret meetings.

On the turn of a dime, wars could erupt. Organizations could thrive or turn extinct, and everyone around would know about it.

The details might not be public, but the destruction and proof regarding who won or lost, glared in the light until it blinded anyone who wanted to see it.

Today, things are different.

Alliances exist, but you always question if you can trust them. It doesn't matter if it's your blood relative, best friend, or lover. Those closest to you can turn at any time.

And Darknet deals are made in the deepest crevices of Hell. The carnage stays hidden, only for those who suffer or bask in their demented glory to see.

Unless you personally step through the satanic door, you'll never know your true enemy. So the days of Mafia wars are over. There's only one place that now determines who survives and who dies.

All the power lies in a more sophisticated, faster moving, scarier universe.

Discipline, vengeance, and loyalty lie within a secret society where only the chosen can enter. But beware. You'll always want to climb to the next level, knowing there's more power in reach but that it's almost impossible to take. So choose your wife carefully. There's no advancing to the next level without her. She better have the same ambitions as you because once you get initiated and say your vows, there's no going back, even in death.

Only those branded with the sacred skeleton know who the trusted members are, and they call their world one thing.

The Underworld.

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