Vow of Ruin

Her father sold her to settle a war. The Don who bought her isn't planning to send her back.

Cosima Russo grew up in the back rooms of her father's restaurants doing the bookkeeping no one wanted her to do, learning four languages no one asked her to learn, and waiting for the night her father would finally lose to a man who didn't take cash. She is twenty-two when that night arrives. She is twenty-two when she finds out her name was the collateral all along.

The man at the other end of the contract is Dante Marchetti. Don of the Marchetti Famiglia. Thirty-eight years old. The man who decided, the first time he saw Cosima Russo cross the cathedral floor in white, that her father's debt was the cheapest acquisition he had ever made and the only one that mattered.

He doesn't apologize for taking her. He apologizes for the church she had to be married in.

Cosima learns very quickly that her new husband negotiates a marriage the way he negotiates a war: he tells you what's happening, he plans every move six steps ahead, and he asks for exactly one thing — that you say yes, out loud, on the record, every single time.

But Cosima's father didn't just owe a debt. He owed a secret. The Bratva that her father double-sold her to is twelve days from finding out where she is. And Dante, who has spent his entire career being the most dangerous man in the room, is about to find out he has spent eleven of those twelve days falling in love with the woman he was supposed to be using.

Vow of Ruin is an arranged-marriage, age-gap mafia romance for readers of Ana Huang, Cora Reilly, and L.J. Shen. Book One of The Marchetti Vows trilogy. Spice level: open door (4 chilies). HEA guaranteed.

• Arranged marriage + age-gap Italian Don
• Touch-her-and-die possessive hero, he-fell-first
• Wedding-night dubcon escalating to full surrender, 4 chili
• First book of The Marchetti Vows trilogy, can be read standalone

Pick your room. xx Sloane.