Mutual Destruction

They already chose each other.Now they must decide how much they are willing to destroy to remain together.Aisling Salazar and Javier Duarte have returned to Palermo with an impossible arrangement: the former Interpol investigator now helps the woman he was assigned to expose build financial escape routes for people trapped inside Europe's most dangerous families.Then Agent Cassia Reyes arrives with three documents capable of bringing down the highest levels of Interpol's Financial Intelligence Unit.The Blood Council did not merely fund the investigation against Aisling.They directed it from inside the institution.Javier is the only person with the standing to submit the evidence. Doing so could restore his career, expose the officers who betrayed him, and dismantle the network that targeted Aisling.It could also make everything they have built impossible to protect.When the Blood Council requests a meeting in Nice, the offer sounds like cooperation: complete disclosure in exchange for a controlled ending.But powerful organisations never surrender without calculating the cost.Aisling and Javier are both compromised.Both possess enough information to destroy the other.Neither intends to walk away.Mutual Destruction is Book Two in the Venom & Lace trilogy, an elegant romantic suspense featuring a morally grey heroine, a principled former Interpol agent, an established power couple, institutional conspiracy, European luxury, and a relationship built to survive the truth.

They already chose each other.Now they must decide how much they are willing to destroy to remain together.Aisling Salazar and Javier Duarte have returned to Palermo with an impossible arrangement: the former Interpol investigator now helps the woman he was assigned to expose build financial escape routes for people trapped inside Europe's most dangerous families.Then Agent Cassia Reyes arrives with three documents capable of bringing down the highest levels of Interpol's Financial Intelligence Unit.The Blood Council did not merely fund the investigation against Aisling.They directed it from inside the institution.Javier is the only person with the standing to submit the evidence. Doing so could restore his career, expose the officers who betrayed him, and dismantle the network that targeted Aisling.It could also make everything they have built impossible to protect.When the Blood Council requests a meeting in Nice, the offer sounds like cooperation: complete disclosure in exchange for a controlled ending.But powerful organisations never surrender without calculating the cost.Aisling and Javier are both compromised.Both possess enough information to destroy the other.Neither intends to walk away.Mutual Destruction is Book Two in the Venom & Lace trilogy, an elegant romantic suspense featuring a morally grey heroine, a principled former Interpol agent, an established power couple, institutional conspiracy, European luxury, and a relationship built to survive the truth.