Clara & Jack · Book 2
Dark Romance · Historical
The Executioner and the Innocent
He is death. And she is beginning to crave him.
Innocent, yet condemned. Chosen by the executioner.
Clara does not belong at court. And yet she is sold there: as companion to a princess, as a pawn in a game for the crown – and as bride to a man she does not want.
When her husband is murdered, someone needs a culprit. Clara is young. Beautiful. Powerless. Perfect.
In the dungeon, the iron waits. In the courtroom, the farce. And on the scaffold waits Jack – the city's executioner. The man everyone fears. The man from her dreams. The man who knows she is innocent … and still wields the sword.
But on this morning, the executioner does not choose a corpse. He chooses a bride.
What begins as punishment becomes a dangerous closeness: between the one who kills and the one he was meant to kill. Between protection and possession. Between tenderness and a power that is allowed to hurt because it is desired. While a conspiracy threatens to tear the realm apart, two people must learn that salvation is sometimes the darker hand – and that innocence does not mean remaining untouched.