The Marks We Keep

In a city where a broken promise brands your skin, two strangers who married for paper must actually mean it.

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AuthorAdeline Thornwood Genreromantasy · contract-marriage · fake-to-real · slow-burn Tropescontract-marriage · fake-to-real · slow-burn FormatSerialized romantasy (chapters) · first 3 chapters free

What it is about

In a city where every broken promise blooms as a black mark on your skin, Iris Vance has stayed spotless for thirty-one years by promising almost nothing. To keep her late father's firm she needs a paper husband; Adrian Cole, heir to a marked family's scandal, needs a respectable wife. They sign a loveless one-year contract, then remember at the altar that a wedding vow is a promise this city writes on flesh.

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