Two in the morning. The dumpster behind a Brooklyn diner. A man on his knees.
Aria Russo was supposed to be taking out the trash. She was twenty-three, a waitress on a closing shift, and the only thing she wanted in the world was eight hours of sleep before her morning class.
Instead she saw three men in the alley.
She saw the gun come up.
She saw the man on his knees stop being a man.
She did not scream. She did not run. She made one small sound, a single breath through her nose, and the tall man with the dark coat turned his head and looked at her, and her life ended in that exact second.
Cassian Salvatore does not leave witnesses.
He is the eldest son of the most feared crime family in New York. He is the man his father sends when his father needs a problem to stop being a problem. He has spent eighteen years enforcing the family's code of silence, and he should have ended Aria Russo in the diner, the same way he ended the rest of them.
He didn't.
He took her instead.
She lives now in a brownstone in Carroll Gardens. Behind a door he locks every night. In a house full of men who watch her the way men watch a thing that has not yet been decided about. He says she is alive because she is more useful alive than dead. He says it is not because she is pretty. He says it is not because he is a good man, because he is not a good man.
He is lying about one of those three things.
She does not yet know that the man Cassian killed in the alley was her father.
She does not yet know that the ring on the chain around her neck is the same ring her father was wearing when he died.
She does not yet know that Cassian knows. And neither of them yet knows what is going to happen when she finds out.
Sin of Silence is Book One of The Salvatore Sins, a dark mafia romance series set in Italian-American Brooklyn. Each book follows a different Salvatore brother. All books end in a HEA.
Tropes: Forced proximity. Captive heroine. Possessive mafia hero. Morally grey hero. Witness identity. Slow burn with explicit on-page heat. Forbidden romance. Found family. HEA guaranteed.
Heat level: Explicit. On-page sex from Chapter 5. Dark themes including on-page violence, captivity dynamics, and themes of grief and forgiveness.
Reader note: This is a dark romance for adult readers. If you read for the slow burn, the tension, the moment when a hero who should not love her cannot stop himself, this one is for you.
Genre: Romance
Aria Russo was supposed to be taking out the trash. She was twenty-three, a waitress on a closing shift, and the only thing she wanted in the world was eight hours of sleep before her morning class.
Instead she saw three men in the alley.
She saw the gun come up.
She saw the man on his knees stop being a man.
She did not scream. She did not run. She made one small sound, a single breath through her nose, and the tall man with the dark coat turned his head and looked at her, and her life ended in that exact second.
Cassian Salvatore does not leave witnesses.
He is the eldest son of the most feared crime family in New York. He is the man his father sends when his father needs a problem to stop being a problem. He has spent eighteen years enforcing the family's code of silence, and he should have ended Aria Russo in the diner, the same way he ended the rest of them.
He didn't.
He took her instead.
She lives now in a brownstone in Carroll Gardens. Behind a door he locks every night. In a house full of men who watch her the way men watch a thing that has not yet been decided about. He says she is alive because she is more useful alive than dead. He says it is not because she is pretty. He says it is not because he is a good man, because he is not a good man.
He is lying about one of those three things.
She does not yet know that the man Cassian killed in the alley was her father.
She does not yet know that the ring on the chain around her neck is the same ring her father was wearing when he died.
She does not yet know that Cassian knows. And neither of them yet knows what is going to happen when she finds out.
Sin of Silence is Book One of The Salvatore Sins, a dark mafia romance series set in Italian-American Brooklyn. Each book follows a different Salvatore brother. All books end in a HEA.
Tropes: Forced proximity. Captive heroine. Possessive mafia hero. Morally grey hero. Witness identity. Slow burn with explicit on-page heat. Forbidden romance. Found family. HEA guaranteed.
Heat level: Explicit. On-page sex from Chapter 5. Dark themes including on-page violence, captivity dynamics, and themes of grief and forgiveness.
Reader note: This is a dark romance for adult readers. If you read for the slow burn, the tension, the moment when a hero who should not love her cannot stop himself, this one is for you.
Genre: Romance
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