The rules were simple: fake a relationship, keep her safe, and never, ever touch her. He’s about to break every single one.

Katarina has spent her life mastering the art of perfection, always polished, always untouchable. Argentina’s most adored actress is flawless in the spotlight—mistakes are simply not part of her script. Until she kissed the most dangerous man in Buenos Aires.

Damiano doesn’t do relationships. He doesn’t do feelings. And he absolutely does not do Katarina—his business partner’s sister, the woman whose face is on every magazine in the country, the one person he has been trying to forget since the moment she walked into his life.

But when a ghost from his past puts a target on her back, walking away is no longer an option.

He’ll keep her close to keep her safe.
He’ll tell himself it means nothing.
He’ll lie.

What starts as a desperate arrangement slowly unravels into something neither can name—something achingly real, dangerously consuming, and far too perilous for a man who abandoned a world of blood and shadows in search of peace.

As he discovers peace has a price.

Katarina is about to discover that the man she fell for carries secrets darker than anything she feared—and that her own past holds a truth that will change everything.

Dark Rose: Revenge is a dark romance for readers who want their heroines fierce, their heroes ruthless, and their love stories drenched in shadows.

📍 Set in Buenos Aires and Sicily
🥀 Book 1 of The Dark Rose Series—cliffhanger ending

Tropes: Mafia Boss MMC · Celebrity FMC · Fake Dating → Real Feelings · Forbidden Attraction · He Pushes Her Away · Forced Proximity · Morally Grey Hero · Touch Her And Die · Slow Burn · Secret Identity · Grief Romance · She Saves Him Back · Cliffhanger Ending