The Crown of Lies

1.

The day before my wedding to Leo Gallo, the heir to the Gallo family, my best friend, Sienna Volkov, killed my mother in a car crash.

Leo didn’t just let her get away with it. He tore up our marriage contract and announced his union with Sienna, a public declaration of a new alliance.

I swore I’d make Sienna pay. I crashed their celebration party, vowing to get blood for blood, but all I got were jeers and pity. They called me an outsider who didn’t understand the rules.

Just when I was a