The truth has a price. And it always takes someone with it.

Sasha Cross followed her father’s final words across an ocean—straight into the shadows of Bucharest, where Nikolai Volkov has been waiting for her for fourteen years.

He doesn’t just know what happened to her father.
He knows who ordered it.
And he knows exactly what it will cost her to find out.

But truth is never neutral. It kills in silence.

Dante Moretti was never supposed to follow her.

She told him to stay away. To leave before he became part of it.
He didn’t listen.

Now Mama Jo is gone. And Dante is no longer just a man in her past—he is part of the war she cannot escape.

Because the closer Sasha gets to the truth, the more the world around her begins to collapse. People die. Loyalties break. And every answer leads to a deeper lie.

In a system built on corruption, the truth is not something you uncover.
It is something you survive.

And survival always demands sacrifice.

Sasha wanted justice.
Dante wanted to protect her.

Neither of them understood that the truth was never meant to set her free—it was meant to make sure she never was.

Book 2 in the Kingdom of Lies series.
A dark mafia romance where love is not salvation—it is collateral damage.