The Silk Road Vow

About the book

Two worlds. One impossible choice. A vow that could cost them everything. Cassandra Contarini has six days before she's sold to a man who has already buried two wives. So she does the only thing she can: she cuts her hair, steals her brother's clothes, and disappears into the Venetian night. She doesn't expect to end up hiding in the hold of Captain Riccardo da Mar's trading ship, or that the guarded, quietly ruthless man who catches her will become the one person standing between her and everything she's running from. What begins as an uneasy bargain, passage in exchange for her silence, turns into a desperate flight across the entire Silk Road: Byzantine intrigue, a sandstorm in the Karakum, a slave market in Samarkand, and a duel with a man Riccardo once called brother. At the glittering court of the Mongol Khan, one overheard word could save an empire, or cost them both their lives. Somewhere between betrayal and rescue, between a stolen kiss under desert stars and a vow neither of them planned to make, enmity becomes something neither can walk away from. A sweeping enemies-to-lovers historical romance of escape, danger, and a love strong enough to survive an empire's worth of secrets. Book 6 of An Evening Romance, a standalone read.