The Blackthorne Dynasty: The Crown: The Blackthorne Series: 3

The family that perfected the breaking raised her to prove it could change. He was the first life they ever saved. Neither of them planned to fall.Two children, born at opposite ends of a single year.Madeleine Blackthorne is the heir of the family that spent a hundred years taking other people's lives apart for profit - raised, from her first day, to be the living proof that a family like hers can change.Aurelio Mendoza is the posthumous son of a man that exact kind of machine put in the ground before he was born. He is also the very first family the Blackthornes ever chose to save instead of ruin.They were made by the same year, for - as far as either of them can tell - exactly this.Grave, watchful, each one carrying a weight the other recognizes on sight, they are drawn together by a symmetry neither of them chose. But before he will let it become anything, Aurelio has to walk through an impossible doubt: whether loving the daughter of the family that buried his father is the last betrayal of the dead - or the only thing that could ever make it right.The dynasty ends where it was always going to end: at a long table, with the dead given their chairs, two families folding into one, and a hundred years of breaking finally becoming the keeping.The Blackthorne Crown is the final book of the Blackthorne Dynasty, a slow-burn dark contemporary romance. Forced proximity - a grave, devoted hero - two scarred families - multigenerational found family - a deeply earned HEA.