DEVIL'S VOW: A Dark Irish Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance (The Doyles of Southie Book 1)

He swore an oath to his dying father. He's about to break it for her.Cian Doyle has ruled South Boston since he was eighteen years old, bound by the vow he made at his father's deathbed: the family comes first. Always. No wife, no son, no softness until your brothers are settled. For seventeen years, he has kept it.Then a debt comes due.The Walsh family owes the Doyles one-point-two million dollars and a reckoning twenty-eight years in the making. There is a way to settle it — a marriage, a Doyle for a Walsh daughter — and Cian does the one thing he swore he never would.He names himself.She has been bracing for this since she was eighteen.Saoirse Walsh runs her dead mother's bakery, keeps her drunk father upright, and protects her little sister from the cost of his mistakes. When the Doyles come to collect, she signs the contract because the alternative is watching everyone she loves lose everything. She walks into St. Augustine's, takes a devil's name, and lets him slide a Claddagh onto her finger with the heart turned out.What she doesn't tell him — what she's never told anyone — is that she understands every word of the Irish he murmurs against her skin. Her mother taught her the old language when she was a girl. And Saoirse has decided she will not say a word back until the man she married says something worth answering.He is lethal. He is devout. He is hers — though neither of them will admit it yet.But there is a rival family circling Doyle territory, an old enemy who remembers a debt of his own, and a threat closing on Saoirse that will force Cian to choose between the vow he made to a dead man and the woman who has become his whole reason for breathing.When it comes to her, there was never a choice at all.DEVIL'S VOW is the first book in The Doyles of Southie, a dark Irish mafia romance saga. Expect an arranged marriage, a possessive antihero who is only soft for one woman, a heroine with secrets and steel, a Catholic wedding that means something, and a happily ever after worth the blood it costs. Full-length novel. Standalone with a guaranteed HEA.