The Enforcer's Debt
(2026)(The first book in the Dark Irish Mafia Romance series)
A novel by Neva Cole
His family owns the debt. Her hands are the price.
Maeve Donnelly saves animals for a living. When Ciarán Mulqueen brings a bleeding fighter to her clinic, he offers her a different kind of patient—and a brutal way to pay her brother’s gambling debt.
Every stitch should bring her closer to freedom. Instead, every Friday pulls her deeper into the family’s illegal fight gym, and closer to the man who controls the numbers.
Ciarán knows how to break a body. Maeve knows how to mend one. He holds her light, learns her instruments, and notices the exhaustion everyone else takes for granted. In a cellar she should hate, she begins to feel wanted.
But care is not the same as choice. Ciarán has spent his life obeying a father who treats people as assets, and he keeps deciding what Maeve can survive without ever letting her answer.
As the cost of the family business becomes impossible to ignore, desire will not be enough. To have a future together, they must confront what his protection demands—and what her silence allows.
On Tulip Street, every favor has a price. Loving him may be the one debt she cannot afford.
Book One of Neva Cole’s interconnected dark Irish mafia romance series. Begin here; the family mystery continues in The Bookmaker’s Claim.
Maeve Donnelly saves animals for a living. When Ciarán Mulqueen brings a bleeding fighter to her clinic, he offers her a different kind of patient—and a brutal way to pay her brother’s gambling debt.
Every stitch should bring her closer to freedom. Instead, every Friday pulls her deeper into the family’s illegal fight gym, and closer to the man who controls the numbers.
Ciarán knows how to break a body. Maeve knows how to mend one. He holds her light, learns her instruments, and notices the exhaustion everyone else takes for granted. In a cellar she should hate, she begins to feel wanted.
But care is not the same as choice. Ciarán has spent his life obeying a father who treats people as assets, and he keeps deciding what Maeve can survive without ever letting her answer.
As the cost of the family business becomes impossible to ignore, desire will not be enough. To have a future together, they must confront what his protection demands—and what her silence allows.
On Tulip Street, every favor has a price. Loving him may be the one debt she cannot afford.
Book One of Neva Cole’s interconnected dark Irish mafia romance series. Begin here; the family mystery continues in The Bookmaker’s Claim.
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