Rosa Whitmore doesn't make mistakes.
She's a forensic accountant. Precision is the job. So when she flags an irregularity in a Calabrese shell company during an audit, she's certain she's done the right thing.
She is wrong about what happens next.
Two men appear at her door. She loses her job. She gains a one-way flight to New York and an offer she can't refuse: fix the books, or face the consequences. When the alternative is everything the Calabrese family is capable of, Rosa takes the job.
Dominic Calabrese is the Don. Controlled, calculating, and terrifyingly still in a way that makes most people very careful around him. He doesn't bring civilians into his world. He certainly doesn't trust them.
Except he needs her. Her specific, rare, inconvenient kind of brilliant.
What he doesn't expect is to need her in other ways too.
Rosa knows what this situation is. She's done the analysis forty times and she knows what it says. She just can't make herself believe the analysis, because Dominic Calabrese is honest with her in ways that cost him something, and he gave her back her passport before she'd decided to stay, and the library in the evenings is where she's most herself, and—
And she's staying. Not because she has to. Because she wants to.
Bought by the Don is a dark Italian mafia romance featuring a forensic accountant heroine who refuses to be managed, a powerful Don who has been waiting twelve years for the right reason to stop being alone, and the slow build of trust between two people who say what they mean even when it's inconvenient. HEA. Dual POV. Explicit content.
She's a forensic accountant. Precision is the job. So when she flags an irregularity in a Calabrese shell company during an audit, she's certain she's done the right thing.
She is wrong about what happens next.
Two men appear at her door. She loses her job. She gains a one-way flight to New York and an offer she can't refuse: fix the books, or face the consequences. When the alternative is everything the Calabrese family is capable of, Rosa takes the job.
Dominic Calabrese is the Don. Controlled, calculating, and terrifyingly still in a way that makes most people very careful around him. He doesn't bring civilians into his world. He certainly doesn't trust them.
Except he needs her. Her specific, rare, inconvenient kind of brilliant.
What he doesn't expect is to need her in other ways too.
Rosa knows what this situation is. She's done the analysis forty times and she knows what it says. She just can't make herself believe the analysis, because Dominic Calabrese is honest with her in ways that cost him something, and he gave her back her passport before she'd decided to stay, and the library in the evenings is where she's most herself, and—
And she's staying. Not because she has to. Because she wants to.
Bought by the Don is a dark Italian mafia romance featuring a forensic accountant heroine who refuses to be managed, a powerful Don who has been waiting twelve years for the right reason to stop being alone, and the slow build of trust between two people who say what they mean even when it's inconvenient. HEA. Dual POV. Explicit content.
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