CONOR (BLOOD AND THUNDER book 5) With white-hot revenge... She's playing the part of bride, but is she playing into his hands? Karolina Carolides was born into a gilded cage, her life a bargaining chip in her father's dark empire of human trafficking. Marriage isn't a choice, it's a transaction-a means to an end, just like her. The night her mother was thrown from a helicopter into the sea, Karolina stopped believing in mercy. Determined to bring down a man who thinks of all women as slaves, Karolina sees an opportunity to escape her father's clutches and free the women he keeps as pawns. But to do that, she must agree to marry Irish enforcer Conor Murphy. Conor is no fool, but he's no gentleman, either. Will he be the key that allows Karolina to escape, or will he be worse than her father? There's only one way to find out.