Twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Sophia Martinelli has built a quiet life far from her father’s criminal legacy, visiting her catatonic mother and avoiding any connection to the mob world that destroyed her family. When her estranged father, Vincent, a lawyer who betrayed the powerful Benedetti crime family, surfaces after years in hiding, the new family leader, Gabi Benedetti Jr., demands blood payment. The ransom isn’t money: it’s Sophia.
Enzo Ricci, the family’s most feared enforcer, expects to interrogate a spoiled mob princess. Instead, he finds an innocent woman whose defiance intrigues him and whose beauty ignites an instant, dangerous attraction. When rival Russian Bratva learn of Sophia’s existence and target her for her father’s crimes, Enzo makes an unprecedented decision: he proposes a fake marriage to make her untouchable within mafia law.
Forced into Enzo’s dark world of luxury and violence, Sophia discovers her carefully maintained innocence was always an illusion. As their fake marriage becomes surprisingly real through shared passion and growing trust, devastating secrets emerge. Secrets that could shatter the fragile foundation of their marriage and endanger Sophia’s life.
When Vincent returns to New York with powerful allies, orchestrating a war between crime families, both Sophia and Enzo must choose between the safety of lies and the dangerous truth of their love. But some secrets have consequences that could destroy not just their relationship, but their lives.
Genre: Romance
Enzo Ricci, the family’s most feared enforcer, expects to interrogate a spoiled mob princess. Instead, he finds an innocent woman whose defiance intrigues him and whose beauty ignites an instant, dangerous attraction. When rival Russian Bratva learn of Sophia’s existence and target her for her father’s crimes, Enzo makes an unprecedented decision: he proposes a fake marriage to make her untouchable within mafia law.
Forced into Enzo’s dark world of luxury and violence, Sophia discovers her carefully maintained innocence was always an illusion. As their fake marriage becomes surprisingly real through shared passion and growing trust, devastating secrets emerge. Secrets that could shatter the fragile foundation of their marriage and endanger Sophia’s life.
When Vincent returns to New York with powerful allies, orchestrating a war between crime families, both Sophia and Enzo must choose between the safety of lies and the dangerous truth of their love. But some secrets have consequences that could destroy not just their relationship, but their lives.
Genre: Romance