Wed to the Ruthless Don

"Keep that blade quiet under your lace, little bride," Chicago’s most ruthless mafia don whispers, his lips brushing my skin as he disarms the dagger hidden beneath my wedding gown. "You only get one strike—make it count." To stop a devastating gang war, Lucia Moretti is traded like livestock to Dante Ferrara, the city's most feared mob tyrant. Trapped inside his impenetrable lakefront estate, Lucia carries a dark vengeance in her chest: she will feign submission, uncover her mother's killer, and slit Dante's throat before the blood dries on her veil. But Dante is no ordinary monster. On their wedding night, he catches her weapon mid-strike, pinning her to the silk sheets and vowing to tame every inch of her defiance. Imprisoned in a gilded cage where hatred burns hotter than desire, Lucia stumbles upon a terrifying secret hidden within encrypted ledgers. The uncle who sacrificed her was the real mastermind behind her mother's murder, and this marriage was designed as her execution. When bloodthirsty mercenaries breach the estate gates and Dante takes a bullet meant for her heart, Lucia must make a choice: let her ruthless conqueror die, or seize a heavy rifle and fight alongside the villain who claimed her soul.