Pride, Prejudice and the Brotherhood

Darkest Vows #2

by O.S. Feathers

She called him three hundred and nine times.
While men with guns kicked down the door.
While glass shattered.

While she locked their daughter in a closet and begged God he would answer.
He didn’t.

By the time the most feared mafia boss in the city came home, the silence was worse than gunfire.
The door was torn from its frame.
The walls were sprayed red.

Blood dragged across the floor like something had been pulled.
He found his daughter shaking in the dark.
“Where is she?” he rasped.

Her tiny fingers clutched his shirt.
“Mommy hid me… but they took her.”

She swallowed, fighting tears.
“They kept asking where you were… When she wouldn’t tell them, they hurt her. They punched her tummy… She was bleeding, Daddy. She threw up blood under her skirt… and then she stopped moving.”

For the first time in his life—the man who ruled the underworld couldn’t breathe.

Genres: Dark Romance

448 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2026

About the author

O.S Feathers writes dark, twisty love stories about morally questionable men and the fierce, brilliant women who bring them to their knees, sometimes literally. She has a soft spot for arranged marriages, possessive antiheroes, and heroines who know how to shoot or at least threaten with style.

She drinks too much coffee, lives for slow-burn tension, and has never met a knife-to-throat scene she didn’t love. When she’s not writing, she’s probably researching obscure Russian swear words, rewriting a spicy chapter for the third time, or convincing her characters that therapy is not, in fact, the enemy.

If you like your love stories messy, dangerous, and just a little unhinged, she’s got you.

Reviews

[Booklover · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was so awful it actually cracked me up. Writer was like let’s throw a mix of all the bad things that can happen to a woman caused by the supposed love interest, make him indifferent, then make him kill some other bad guys so he can be some less bad guy or whatever and then some more dumb and bad stuff happening with some dumb FBI thrown into this hot mess. It's mental. 😵‍💫🤡

To give some context, MMC lost his wife and child because FMC’s sister did something. Now he wants revenge, but he couldn’t find her, so it was the FMC who was going to pay. He marries her, gets het pregnant, gets her thrown in prison for almost a year, she gets abused, tortured and raped into a miscarriage. He knew all of this and even caused this. Then she gets out and kidnapped again for two months and tortured again and what not to the point her vocal cords got damaged and she can’t speak anymore. She asks him for a divorce he says no, she cant leave him and blackmail’s her to stay if he tells her where her father is. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Her brothers know all this and stand by her side doing nothing because of a contract.

Fastforward some years, she is now an FBI agent who wants to bring him down. He pulls some strings and suddenly she is back in his house playing the nanny for his son because he misses her. He asks for a second chance to show her he regrets it, she says yes. 🚮

Did I forgot to mention that he had her sister in his basement while she was being tortured. 😵‍💫

No idea what writer was trying to do here, but whatever it was, it was awful. Will not be reading anything from this writer.

[Fie Pedersen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had so much potential but it was so disappointing… So drawn out and repetitive in places but skipped over important parts.

[Nicole Beuke · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly don’t know why I read this when I knew the first one was bad so this was going to be disappointing as well. I feel like it has so much potential but it just lacks all around. The time line is weird for me with it jumping 4 years and 3 years in between chapters. It also just keeps talking about the past. Every chapter I swear just brings up the past and her trauma ( valid) like bring in something new and continue the story. There’s also just so much going on that doesn’t really make sense or doesn’t add up or isn’t talked about.
I get she got saved in the beginning and then became a cop, but after she went for the case in Cali (like come on that screams set up, what are the odds) her brothers are never mentioned again. They were never even mentioned until randomly they showed up at the prison and took her home?

She also says her and the husband stayed up for hours coming up with Daphne’s name… he was in prison when she was pregnant and they didn’t get along before that so why would they ever come up with a baby name?

[Celeste Amorim · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's a shame, the whole book is AI... the dialogues, the descriptions... the characters aren't bad and the story could be much better, but having a bunch of ideas and cramming them all into a book, using chat GPT... it is a shame.

[miss possessive · Rating 4 out of 5]

idk Its obviously good because I've read it in a few hours but, I just felt so sorry for Elena. I loved the first book and I have enjoyed reading this one. I will probably read the next one about Elena's sister :)

[Vânia Raquel · Rating 2 out of 5]

First book was very confusing, and the second the narrative is better but is still confusing in some parts. Its like the story is being rushed, but i liked the idea of this story but needs improvement

[Patsy Bowman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Intriguing

This story has a lot of promise, but the pacing felt uneven and the transitions between scenes were a bit jumpy. In my opinion, it would have functioned better as one complete novel instead of being broken into two parts.

[Deborah Pilling · Rating 4 out of 5]

I did really enjoy this one too. My only criticism is that it kept jumping timelines and I was slightly confused - one minute talking about getting instant revenge them bam it was months or even years later

[Roma Sauza]

DNF. Even though the first book was bad I hoped this one would improve. Wrong 😑. I gave up after a few chapters because I didn’t want to give it any more space in my poor brain. Do yourself a favour people- DON’T DO IT!

[Helen Gold · Rating 1 out of 5]

What is this? How is a book this horrible? The husband had to gorge out his own eyes before she could forgive him .

[Zdenusik · Rating 2 out of 5]

honestly the writting style was annoying and repetitive and story was random mix of all possible misfortunes FMC can have. 2 stars because of some characters that werent as annoying

[Antrea Ahha · Rating 4 out of 5]

sorrows, sorrows, prayers

[Lisa Vong · Rating 2 out of 5]

⭐️⭐️💫

[✧ Lala ✧ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

I went into this book thinking i would really enjoy it but that wasn't the case for me. It was just kind of all over the place for me. Too many time jumps. Definitely enjoyed the first book more than this.