Aiko believes every member of the Blackrose Brotherhood has secrets, even their leader Mikalis. Especially Mikalis. But Aiko’s secret is the worst of all. Kill all blood-sucking nyks, and never care. Those are the rules the brotherhood live by. It’s been that way for millennia. Aiko doesn’t make waves, he follows orders—and as Mikalis’s personal no-questions-asked assassin, he takes pride in his work. But with Mikalis back in London, and a new order to clear-out Chinatown, Mikalis skirts too close to Aiko’s secret. What if Aiko did care, and what if the man he cared about was a vicious, sociopathic, yet painfully alluring nyk? A nyk who runs the east end’s most notorious gang? Aiko didn’t ask to love the enemy. It turns out, the red string of fate has other ideas. Violent Secret is a novella that takes place in the Blackrose Brotherhood world. It can be read as a standalone, but ideally should be read after Book 2 in the series. Please note: Violent Secret was previously published in the Fated Mates anthology.