Three brides. One crown. Two will be discarded.

Selene Kavanagh was raised to be sold. She just never expected to be delivered barefoot to a man who names her Troublemaker before he learns anything else about her.

Diarmuid O'Sullivan is heir to an Irish crime family and a hand of an order older than it — a brotherhood that decides who rules, and how. Tradition gives him three brides. Until he chooses one, he can have all of them.

Selene refuses to compete. Niamh is too obedient to try. And Amira will do anything to win, which is exactly what makes her dangerous when she loses.

But a woman is dead and the order is hiding why. The two brides who were meant to be rivals are the only ones asking questions — and the closer Selene gets to the answer, the clearer it becomes what Diarmuid is capable of.

He was never going to keep all three.

She just didn't expect to want to be the one he kept.

When Kings Rise is book one of the O'Sullivan's Brides trilogy — a dark Irish mafia romance told through four points of view.

Tropes: arranged marriage · bride selection · morally grey hero · possessive alpha · enemies to lovers · forced proximity · secret society · multiple POV · high heat

Content warnings: explicit sexual content including group scenes, dubious consent, graphic violence, mutilation, drug use, murder, coercion and power imbalance. Ends on a cliffhanger. Full list on my website.