They came for my father's debts. They left with me.
Sofia Bellini was raised to be a Bellini woman — composed, educated, useful in the small ways daughters of failing men are useful. She has a master's from Columbia, four languages, and a future she had carefully built away from her father's empire.
Until the night her father summons her to his study and tells her she has been sold.
He came to collect a debt. He stayed for the woman who refused to flinch.
Dante Marchetti does not lose. At thirty, he runs the most feared mafia dynasty in New York — a man who buries problems where no one finds them and signs his name only on what he intends to keep. Tommaso Bellini owes him more money than the Bellini name is worth. The debt has only one acceptable form of payment.
He arrives expecting a frightened girl in a borrowed dress. He finds Sofia Bellini, who looks him in the eye and gives him three conditions of her own.
The wedding is in two weeks. The marriage is for life. And neither of them planned for what comes after the vow.
In the silence of his Manhattan penthouse, in the library where she reads after midnight, in the quiet dangers stalking the Marchetti name, Sofia learns that the man she married is not the man she expected — and Dante learns that the woman he negotiated for is the one thing in his empire he cannot control. But there are older debts in this city. The Volkovs are watching. And the vow Dante made on the wedding day is not the vow he most wants to make.
Genre: Romance
Sofia Bellini was raised to be a Bellini woman — composed, educated, useful in the small ways daughters of failing men are useful. She has a master's from Columbia, four languages, and a future she had carefully built away from her father's empire.
Until the night her father summons her to his study and tells her she has been sold.
He came to collect a debt. He stayed for the woman who refused to flinch.
Dante Marchetti does not lose. At thirty, he runs the most feared mafia dynasty in New York — a man who buries problems where no one finds them and signs his name only on what he intends to keep. Tommaso Bellini owes him more money than the Bellini name is worth. The debt has only one acceptable form of payment.
He arrives expecting a frightened girl in a borrowed dress. He finds Sofia Bellini, who looks him in the eye and gives him three conditions of her own.
The wedding is in two weeks. The marriage is for life. And neither of them planned for what comes after the vow.
In the silence of his Manhattan penthouse, in the library where she reads after midnight, in the quiet dangers stalking the Marchetti name, Sofia learns that the man she married is not the man she expected — and Dante learns that the woman he negotiated for is the one thing in his empire he cannot control. But there are older debts in this city. The Volkovs are watching. And the vow Dante made on the wedding day is not the vow he most wants to make.
Genre: Romance
Used availability for Nova Kane's Vow of Ruin