Hades’ Little Warrior Takes on the Mafia

The marriage between Lucian and Valerie is an arrangement on paper. She is the heir to the Ashford family and needs a husband to get out of a match her relatives have set up for her, and he agrees to it. What she does not know is that he is the Guardian of the Underworld Gates, who left the realm of the dead with his daughter Mila and settled in the mortal city of Vesper to live like anyone else. Mila carries the power of the River Styx. Lucian met Valerie on the street while she was being hunted and pulled her out of it. After the wedding, Adrian Hawthorne's family moves on them. They take Valerie, and envoys from the Underworld are sent to kill. Mila's strength is far past a child's, and she puts herself between her mother and whoever comes for her. Lucian wipes the memories of the people who see any of it. Mila gets into a listening device the other side planted, which turns up the cousin, Gavin, arranging forged drug evidence to pin on Valerie. Father and daughter break the scheme open at the family council while Adrian is arriving at the docks with armed men.