BELLA In six days I'm to be handed over at a church door to a man I've already refused twice. The paper that gives me away carries the signature of the father of the man I love. My whole life, men have written my name on contracts. My father. My guardian. The old men who run this city. Every time I said no, they wrote me down anyway. But this time, I'm carrying a child no doctor ever thought I could carry. His child. To keep it, I'll have to stand in front of the most dangerous men in New York and say it out loud. I've been the thing they write down for the last time. PIETRO My grandfather wrote the rules every family in this city lives by. My father used them to sell her. Now every house in New York is bound to come for her, and for the child she's carrying, and I've got six days. I'll go to war with all of it. The paper. The families. My own blood. Nobody takes her. Nobody takes our child. I've buried her once. I've watched her bleed. I've stood on a floor with her and promised her she'd never be alone on one again. I keep my promises. Even the ones that might kill me. This is the third book in The Empty Graves Series. Reading order: Silent Heart. Cruel Vice. Sinful Crave.