She was set up by the wrong man. The right man came for her before sunrise.
Zara Mitchell doesn't make mistakes on the keyboard. So when a routine forensic dig surfaces a ledger that belongs to the Calabrese family, and a fingerprint that says she was steered to it on purpose, she knows she's in trouble before the man at her door says his name.
Nico Vitale. Calabrese captain. The kind of man who carries a woman's keyboard himself. The kind of man who relocates her into a safe house before she's had her first cup of coffee. The kind of man who takes one look at her and decides.
Nico learns who set Zara up before she does. He has the name. He holds it. Telling her means watching her take the fight to a man who will aim straight for her family, and Nico makes the mistake dangerous men make when they fall too hard: he decides protection means choosing what she gets to know.
Zara finds out anyway.
Tropes you'll get:
BWWM mafia romance
Hacker heroine vs. the captain who reads her first
Forced proximity in a safe house
He falls first, and everyone notices
She runs the bedroom, and he does what she asks, nothing else
Grief, a mother's last request, Sunday dinner, a scar under her palm
One confession too late, one woman deciding the terms of return
Another stand-alone in the Quick Mafia Heat series. BWWM mafia-lite, short and satisfying, scorching heat, full HEA, no cliffhanger. Read in any order.
Genre: Romance
Zara Mitchell doesn't make mistakes on the keyboard. So when a routine forensic dig surfaces a ledger that belongs to the Calabrese family, and a fingerprint that says she was steered to it on purpose, she knows she's in trouble before the man at her door says his name.
Nico Vitale. Calabrese captain. The kind of man who carries a woman's keyboard himself. The kind of man who relocates her into a safe house before she's had her first cup of coffee. The kind of man who takes one look at her and decides.
Nico learns who set Zara up before she does. He has the name. He holds it. Telling her means watching her take the fight to a man who will aim straight for her family, and Nico makes the mistake dangerous men make when they fall too hard: he decides protection means choosing what she gets to know.
Zara finds out anyway.
Tropes you'll get:
BWWM mafia romance
Hacker heroine vs. the captain who reads her first
Forced proximity in a safe house
He falls first, and everyone notices
She runs the bedroom, and he does what she asks, nothing else
Grief, a mother's last request, Sunday dinner, a scar under her palm
One confession too late, one woman deciding the terms of return
Another stand-alone in the Quick Mafia Heat series. BWWM mafia-lite, short and satisfying, scorching heat, full HEA, no cliffhanger. Read in any order.
Genre: Romance
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