oberyn martell viper

"They married her to a corpse. She’ll teach them how to bury the living." When Sloane Sinclair, a disgraced surgeon with a talent for toxins, is sold into marriage to the "dying" heir of the Pemberley dynasty, she knows it’s a trap. The contract is simple: her medical skills for her freedom. But the Pemberleys didn’t expect the viper they’ve invited into their nest. Lucian Pemberley isn’t the feeble puppet his family believes. Behind his coughing fits and silver-tipped cane lies a mind sharp as a scalpel. He recognizes Sloane’s lethal brilliance—and the shadows in her past that mirror his own. Forced to ally, they unravel a conspiracy laced with memory-altering drugs and blood-soaked stock certificates, all leading to the truth behind their mentor’s murder. As their fake marriage ignites into something dangerously real, the Pemberleys strike back. A black widow’s perfume, a sibling’s betrayal, and a ghost from Sloane’s childhood force a choice: heal the man she’s grown to crave, or wield her needles like the weapon she was trained to be.