Overview

The empire falls. The queens rise. Six months of peace. Six months of building something real—a legitimate business, a future free from blood. Alexandra Chen thought the war was over. Then Bella's father is murdered in federal prison. The killer? A shadow from the past. A woman who should have been dead for twenty-six years. And behind her, pulling every string: Elena Romano—Bella's aunt, the true heir to a criminal empire that spans three continents. Elena offers Bella a crown. The price is her soul. Join the network. Inherit the power. Become what your grandfather always intended. Or watch everything you love burn. But Alexandra Chen didn't survive the Russian mob, corrupt prosecutors, and her own transformation to lose Bella now. And Bella didn't fight her way out of darkness to crawl back in. Some empires deserve to fall. As secrets surface that shake the foundation of everything Bella believed—about her family, her fortune, her very identity—the women who found each other in a courtroom must now bring down a conspiracy forty years in the making. The law failed them. The system betrayed them. Now justice wears their faces. And the only verdict that matters is the one they write themselves. SUA SPONTE is the explosive conclusion to the IN CONTEMPT trilogy. This dark mafia lesbian romance features revenge, found family, morally complex heroines, explicit content, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Must be read after PRIMA FACIE and IN CAMERA. Trigger warnings: Violence, family trauma, references to historical atrocities, explicit sexual content, permanent marking (consensual).