Even if hell consumes me (Triada 1)

In London where reputations are currency and power hides behind polished titles, Russell Knight has spent his life building one purpose: revenge. His father was imprisoned unjustly when Russell was a child, and the name responsible—Rowland—has become a promise he intends to collect. Years later, Russell is no longer powerless. As one of the three men who run the city’s most decadent clandestine club, known as La Tríada, he has the influence, the secrets, and the contacts to dismantle the Duke of Rowland piece by piece. In the underworld he has created beneath the church of St. Marylebone, Russell is called Lucifer, and he rules his “hell” with absolute control. 

But the duke’s true weakness isn’t money or status—it’s his daughter. Lady Eliza Cavendish lives like a caged bird, trapped by expectations and a forced engagement to a man old enough to be her grandfather. With no visible exit, she is drawn to a forbidden invitation signed by “Lucifer”: an offer that promises to make her desires come true. Eliza knows she shouldn’t accept, yet the thought of one secret, reckless adventure before the altar is impossible to resist. 

What begins as a calculated move in Russell’s vengeance becomes something far more dangerous. Eliza is not simply collateral, and Russell is not merely an escape. As their worlds collide—duty against desire, control against freedom—both discover that the answers they’re searching for may be found in the one person they were never meant to trust. And if they choose each other, they may have to burn together.