The Devil's Collared Bride
(2026)(The first book in the Valeri Syndicate series)
A novel by Cora J Riley
He killed my father. Then he collared me.
When Sera Marchetti is handed over to the Valeri family as payment for her father’s sins, she expects to die. What she doesn’t expect is Dominic Valeri—cold, calculating, and devastatingly controlled—to put a leather collar around her throat and keep her.
Not as a prisoner. As something worse.
His.
She sits on the floor of his office while he runs an empire. He strokes her hair like she’s a pet and tells her when she’s allowed to breathe. Every touch is a weapon. Every silence is a war. And every time she tells herself she hates him, her body calls her a liar.
But when a rival boss sets a trap that puts Sera in the crosshairs, the man who chains her becomes the man who shatters. And the collar that was meant to break her might be the only thing holding them both together.
The Devil’s Collared Bride is a full-length dark mafia romance featuring an ice-cold antihero, a heroine who fights with humour and survives with strategy, and a collar that starts as a chain and becomes a choice. Enemies to lovers. Slow burn. Explosive payoff.
Content warnings: captivity, graphic intimacy, BDSM dynamics, violence, attempted sexual assault (interrupted), morally grey characters, and a possessive hero who will burn the world for her.
Genre: Mystery
When Sera Marchetti is handed over to the Valeri family as payment for her father’s sins, she expects to die. What she doesn’t expect is Dominic Valeri—cold, calculating, and devastatingly controlled—to put a leather collar around her throat and keep her.
Not as a prisoner. As something worse.
His.
She sits on the floor of his office while he runs an empire. He strokes her hair like she’s a pet and tells her when she’s allowed to breathe. Every touch is a weapon. Every silence is a war. And every time she tells herself she hates him, her body calls her a liar.
But when a rival boss sets a trap that puts Sera in the crosshairs, the man who chains her becomes the man who shatters. And the collar that was meant to break her might be the only thing holding them both together.
The Devil’s Collared Bride is a full-length dark mafia romance featuring an ice-cold antihero, a heroine who fights with humour and survives with strategy, and a collar that starts as a chain and becomes a choice. Enemies to lovers. Slow burn. Explosive payoff.
Content warnings: captivity, graphic intimacy, BDSM dynamics, violence, attempted sexual assault (interrupted), morally grey characters, and a possessive hero who will burn the world for her.
Genre: Mystery
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