She's about to end his family.
Investigative journalist Mira Sokolov has spent six months building the piece that will publish in ProPublica on the second Tuesday of October. Sixteen thousand words. Named sources. Federal indictments incoming.
He's the brother nowhere in the documents.
Dante Marchetti isn't on any corporate filing. He doesn't appear on any deed. His name isn't in Mira's piece — because until seven eleven on a Wednesday morning, she doesn't know he exists.
He knocks. He tells her he's here to protect her from the people who want her dead. He takes her home with him.
Nine days. A guest room with a lock on her side only. Meals cooked by hand. A dog that sleeps at her feet. A man who brought her groceries from her own neighborhood the day before he took her — because he'd already decided what kind of host he was going to be.
He tells her every morning she can decide when to leave.
He tells her, on day nine, he does not want her to.
She has four days between his apartment and her deadline to figure out what to do with a piece that could destroy the family of the man who has, in nine careful days, become the reason she doesn't want to write it.
She has forever, after that, to decide whether to go back to him.
The Open Door is the third book in the Marchetti Brothers series and can be read as a standalone. A slow-burn, tender-dominant dark mafia romance about the enforcer who does the things the documents cannot record, the journalist who was going to name him, and the nine days that will make both of them choose who they are going to be.
Investigative journalist Mira Sokolov has spent six months building the piece that will publish in ProPublica on the second Tuesday of October. Sixteen thousand words. Named sources. Federal indictments incoming.
He's the brother nowhere in the documents.
Dante Marchetti isn't on any corporate filing. He doesn't appear on any deed. His name isn't in Mira's piece — because until seven eleven on a Wednesday morning, she doesn't know he exists.
He knocks. He tells her he's here to protect her from the people who want her dead. He takes her home with him.
Nine days. A guest room with a lock on her side only. Meals cooked by hand. A dog that sleeps at her feet. A man who brought her groceries from her own neighborhood the day before he took her — because he'd already decided what kind of host he was going to be.
He tells her every morning she can decide when to leave.
He tells her, on day nine, he does not want her to.
She has four days between his apartment and her deadline to figure out what to do with a piece that could destroy the family of the man who has, in nine careful days, become the reason she doesn't want to write it.
She has forever, after that, to decide whether to go back to him.
The Open Door is the third book in the Marchetti Brothers series and can be read as a standalone. A slow-burn, tender-dominant dark mafia romance about the enforcer who does the things the documents cannot record, the journalist who was going to name him, and the nine days that will make both of them choose who they are going to be.
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