Issa has everything most girls her age could ever want: good looks, money, and a rich husband in the works. But all Issa has ever wanted is to fit in. To be a normal high school student with friends. A college freshman at her dream school. To have a boyfriend, a father who dotes on her. Instead, she’s being forced to marry Luca Valenti, the head of another mafia family. A ruthless criminal she’s never even met.
Luca is handsome, powerful, and rich. He could have any woman he wants, and he wants Issa. A decade after a brutal betrayal left his father dead and his family’s legacy hanging in the balance, an alliance with Issa’s father will help secure the only thing he’s ever wanted: to be restored to his rightful place at the top of New York City’s underworld.
But no marriage—even an arranged one—is ever that simple.
Gia has made many mistakes in life. Mistakes she’s determined not to repeat. No more partying. No more bad boys. She has a son to raise and a family she can’t disappoint again. But life is hard. And expensive. Exhausted from working long shifts for low wages at the neighborhood diner, Gia caves when she’s given the opportunity to work at an exclusive nightclub. When she catches the eye of NYC’s most notorious criminal, she’s dragged back into a life she hoped to leave behind.
Vittorio is handsome, ruthless, and untouchable. As the primary enforcer for his mafia family, Vittorio can get away with murder. He isn’t a man you can refuse. Vittorio has his own demons—and a dark past he has no interest in leaving behind. Until he meets Gia and starts to question everything he’s been taught to believe about himself and his future.
