A sheltered mafia princess is forced to marry a violent rival heir.
Eighteen-year-old Aria has known only protection inside her Chicago crime family, never seeing the brutality that sustains it. Honor now compels her to wed Luca, the magnetic yet cold heir to the New York syndicate, a man who personifies the very violence she has been spared. The arrangement demands she yield her body to a stranger forged in blood, leaving her to decide whether submission is betrayal or her sole path to staying alive.
Markers
- 1arranged marriage
- 2mafia dynastic rivalry
- 3innocence versus brutality
Audience
Readers drawn to forced-union tension and power-imbalance romance will engage with this premise.
