These Violent Delights

These Violent Delights Duet #1

This paperback edition of These Violent Delights contains never-before-seen letters from Roma to Juliette!

Shanghai, 1926—glittering, lawless, and pulsing with decadence.

A generations-long blood feud between two criminal empires has plunged the city into violence, with the Scarlet Gang and the White Flowers clawing for control of every street. At the center stands eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, freshly returned from her life abroad and ready to reclaim her place as heir to the Scarlets. Her only true rival is Roma Montagov, leader-in-waiting of the White Flowers—and the boy who was once her first love, until betrayal severed them apart.

But when members of both gangs begin to die in horrific fits of madness, tearing at their own throats as rumors spread of a mysterious contagion, old rivalries can no longer hold. Whispers of a lurking monster spiral into panic, and the city’s fragile order threatens to collapse.

Forced into an uneasy alliance, Juliette and Roma must set aside their rage, their history, and their weapons to uncover the source of the terror consuming Shanghai. If they fail, their war will cease to matter—because there will be no city left to claim.