Exiled from his home, Alaric Rule turned to the one member of the Rule family like him. Helix Rule. For three years, he’s learned from the man who rules an empire that spans the world. Hotels and clubs are his claim to fame, but what Helix Rule really does is control a crime syndicate so dark and deadly few dare to cross him. For those who do, he has Alaric. While Helix’s sons Alex and Gideon run the business that everyone thinks makes their family billionaires, Alaric does the job that truly made the Rules a worldwide name. A killer like his uncle before him, he’s a ghost, a man unseen and unknown but deadly. Once Alaric Rule is assigned a name, that person ceases to exist. Assassin. Hitman. Killer. He’s the perfect machine trained to eliminate people, and now he’s found me. Savage Mine was previously published as REAP in the Darkly Ever After Anthology.

From USA Today bestselling author Abbi Cook comes the second generation of the Rule family in the Born Villains series! He told me our time together wasn’t over. Alaric Rule is a killer, a hitman for the crime syndicate his uncle controls. He offers no mercy for anyone in his sights. But to me, he’s the man who gave me a chance to have the life I want. Now my family plans to take that life away. I’m valuable to my brothers because I can be traded, forced to marry a man who can benefit them. A prize valued merely for my body. Only someone like Alaric can help me. I pray our time together isn’t over yet.