A dark, obsessive enemies-to-lovers Sicilian mafia romance with an obsessive mafia boss, a captive heroine, and explicit heat, where he tears apart a trafficking ring to rescue her only to shatter everything they've built with a single unforgivable act.
Elio Marchetti doesn't love gently. He possesses. He consumes. And when it comes to Violet Murphy, the sharp-mouthed American restorer who dismantled every wall he ever built, he would burn his father's empire to ash just to keep her safe.
Then she's taken from him.
Sold into a trafficking compound while Elio hangs from chains in his father's warehouse, Violet disappears into a nightmare with no light and no way out. For three weeks she survives on grit, dark humor, and the stubborn refusal to die in a place that doesn't deserve her.
Elio tears Sicily apart to find her. Every contact. Every safehouse. Every man who touched her, buried.
When he carries her out through the carnage, she lets herself believe in him. Back inside his fortress, the war between them softens into something real. Something that could last.
Then he does the unthinkable. And Violet is left with the only question that matters: can she forgive the man who destroyed an empire to save her, or will this betrayal alter the course of their story forever?
Tropes: Italian Mafia Captive Romance Morally Gray Hero Obsessive Hero Touch Her and Die Forced Proximity Who Did This to You Enemies to Lovers
Heat Level: Explicit (open door, 5/5)
Vibes: Dark, obsessive, emotionally devastating, survival romance
Setting: Sicily
Ending: Cliffhanger (Series Book 2 of 4)
Perfect for fans of: H.D. Carlton, K.A. Knight, Rina Kent
Genre: Romance
Elio Marchetti doesn't love gently. He possesses. He consumes. And when it comes to Violet Murphy, the sharp-mouthed American restorer who dismantled every wall he ever built, he would burn his father's empire to ash just to keep her safe.
Then she's taken from him.
Sold into a trafficking compound while Elio hangs from chains in his father's warehouse, Violet disappears into a nightmare with no light and no way out. For three weeks she survives on grit, dark humor, and the stubborn refusal to die in a place that doesn't deserve her.
Elio tears Sicily apart to find her. Every contact. Every safehouse. Every man who touched her, buried.
When he carries her out through the carnage, she lets herself believe in him. Back inside his fortress, the war between them softens into something real. Something that could last.
Then he does the unthinkable. And Violet is left with the only question that matters: can she forgive the man who destroyed an empire to save her, or will this betrayal alter the course of their story forever?
Tropes: Italian Mafia Captive Romance Morally Gray Hero Obsessive Hero Touch Her and Die Forced Proximity Who Did This to You Enemies to Lovers
Heat Level: Explicit (open door, 5/5)
Vibes: Dark, obsessive, emotionally devastating, survival romance
Setting: Sicily
Ending: Cliffhanger (Series Book 2 of 4)
Perfect for fans of: H.D. Carlton, K.A. Knight, Rina Kent
Genre: Romance
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