Release Blitz: EMPIRE by Rachel Van Dyken
EMPIRE
BY Rachel Van Dyken
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Must Read ELUDE prior to Empire
I have lost everything.
My purpose
My love
My soul
Death knocks on my door, I want to
answer, but every time I reach for the handle -- the promise I made her brings
me back.
So I breathe.
I live.
I hate.
And I allow the anger to boil beneath the
surface of a perfectly indifferent facade. I am broken, I don't want to be
fixed.
But the Empire is crumbling and it's my
job to fix it.
My job to mend the pieces that were
scattered over thirty years ago.
A trip to New York, only one chance to
redeem a lost part of our mafia family.
The only issue is, the only way to fix
it, is to do something I swore I'd never do again.
An arranged marriage.
Only this time,
I won't fall.
Or so help me God, I will kill her
myself.
My name is Sergio Abandonoto, you think
you know my pain, my suffering, my anger, my hate?
You have no idea.
I am the mafia.
I am the darkness.
Blood in. No out.
Sergio looked ready to
strangle me. “No. I don’t believe I asked for an annoying little sister, but if
that’s what you’re offering, please don’t let me stop you. Just know, I won’t
hesitate to put you over my knee if you get out of hand.”
The minute the words left
his mouth. I froze.
He froze.
The taxi driver stared
little laser like holes into the rearview mirror.
And Sergio leaned toward
me.
I swallowed as tension
swirled around us.
He gripped me by the chin
and turned my head to the side, his lips brushing my ear. “It’s like you have a
death wish.”
“You wouldn’t do it.”
He pulled back as both of
his eyebrows shot up, and then he looked down, like he had spotted something.
I followed the direction
of his gaze and let out a little gasp as a gun dug into my stomach.
“It’s been directed at
you for the last four minutes,” Sergio said through a practiced smile. “I meant
what I said. Listen well. I keep my word. Kiss me, and blood will be spilled.”
“Y-you’re a crazy person!”
I hissed, shoving at his chest. “And I wasn’t going to kiss you!”
“Sure you weren’t.” He
put the gun away. “Good talk though, right? Oh look, the movie theater.”
To say that I scrambled
out of the car like a kid running away from her kidnapper would be a gross
understatement, but the minute my feet hit the pavement, I paused.
My body told me to run.
The guy had pulled a gun.
On me.
I didn’t even watch
violent movies.
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Twenty-Four hours before we were to
be married--I offered to shoot her.
Ten hours before our wedding--I made
a mockery of her dying wish.
Five hours before we were going to
say our vows--I promised I'd never love her.
One hour before I said I do--I vowed
I'd never shed a tear over her death.
But the minute we were pronounced man
and wife--I knew.
I'd only use my gun to protect her.
I'd give my life for hers.
I'd cry.
And I would, most definitely, lose my
heart, to a dying girl---a girl who by all accounts should have never been mine
in the first place.
I always believed the mafia would be
my end game--where I'd lose my heart, while it claimed my soul. I could have
never imagined. It would be my redemption.
Or the beginning of something
beautiful.
The beginning of her.
The end of us.
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Rachel
Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today
Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she's not
writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her
next book while watching The Bachelor.
She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!
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