She has a 217-page dossier. He has her on speed-dial.
Olivia Reyes is a six-foot Cuban-Irish forensic accountant who works seventy hours a week, cried twice in her life, and has a one-eyed rescue cat named Ham.
She does not have one-night stands.
Until a Saturday in May at the Plaza Hotel bar, three tequilas, and a man in a charcoal Italian suit who tells her to call him M, kisses her like he is dying, and breaks her condom.
She leaves at 7:11 a.m. with one of his cufflinks and zero intention of seeing him again.
Twelve weeks later, on a Tuesday morning, the partners' meeting at her firm pulls up a slide for a new forensic case. The face on slide three is M's. His real name is Matteo Salvatore Maria Valenti, his family runs an actual American crime empire, and the four-month conflict-of-interest hold she's about to invoke is going to feel like four very long months when she's already eleven weeks pregnant with his baby.
Matteo has spent twelve weeks looking for the woman who walked out of his pied-à-terre at 7:11 a.m. with one of his cufflinks. He's been in court when his face went up on her slide. He's been waiting for her to find him.
He has eight weeks to figure out how to dismantle his family's empire before her dossier hits the Eastern District of New York.
She has nine months to figure out whether she wants to bare him to the world — or to herself.
Either way — the man on the tenth floor of the Yorkville Tower has, in fact, already bought the apartment under hers.
9 MONTHS TO BARE is a steamy, slow-burn, dark mafia romance with surprise pregnancy, forced proximity, an obsessive hero, a sharp-tongued heroine, dual POV, found family, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed HEA. Standalone in The Valenti Empire series.
Olivia Reyes is a six-foot Cuban-Irish forensic accountant who works seventy hours a week, cried twice in her life, and has a one-eyed rescue cat named Ham.
She does not have one-night stands.
Until a Saturday in May at the Plaza Hotel bar, three tequilas, and a man in a charcoal Italian suit who tells her to call him M, kisses her like he is dying, and breaks her condom.
She leaves at 7:11 a.m. with one of his cufflinks and zero intention of seeing him again.
Twelve weeks later, on a Tuesday morning, the partners' meeting at her firm pulls up a slide for a new forensic case. The face on slide three is M's. His real name is Matteo Salvatore Maria Valenti, his family runs an actual American crime empire, and the four-month conflict-of-interest hold she's about to invoke is going to feel like four very long months when she's already eleven weeks pregnant with his baby.
Matteo has spent twelve weeks looking for the woman who walked out of his pied-à-terre at 7:11 a.m. with one of his cufflinks. He's been in court when his face went up on her slide. He's been waiting for her to find him.
He has eight weeks to figure out how to dismantle his family's empire before her dossier hits the Eastern District of New York.
She has nine months to figure out whether she wants to bare him to the world — or to herself.
Either way — the man on the tenth floor of the Yorkville Tower has, in fact, already bought the apartment under hers.
9 MONTHS TO BARE is a steamy, slow-burn, dark mafia romance with surprise pregnancy, forced proximity, an obsessive hero, a sharp-tongued heroine, dual POV, found family, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed HEA. Standalone in The Valenti Empire series.
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