❤︎1920s Gangster Romance

❤︎Opposites Attract

❤︎Redemption Arc

❤︎Forbidden Love

In a city built on smoke and sin, love might be the deadliest risk of all.

For a quiet girl from the Cotswolds, the smoke-filled streets of 1920s Birmingham is a foreign world of soot, secrets, and sharp edges. Elisabeth Montgomery is thrust into a life she doesn't understand, with a family that's falling apart at the seams. Naive and innocent, Lizzie's never known the thrill—or the risk—of a man's touch.

Until she meets James MacGuire.

A brooding former Irish gangster with a past drenched in blood and whiskey. James is everything Lizzie should avoid, yet one smouldering encounter ignites a fire she can't extinguish. He's dangerous, intoxicating... and hiding dark truths that could shatter them both.

As long-buried secrets rise to the surface and enemies close in, James must confront his past. But redemption comes at a cost—and Lizzie's heart might be the price. Will love be enough, or will the truth destroy their only chance at a future?

Whiskey will be drunk, knives will be drawn, and desire will burn in this steamy, suspenseful historical dark romance where passion collides with danger, and love walks on the knife's edge.