He went to Reggio Calabria for the bikes.
He kept going back.
She knew it wasn't the bikes. She didn't say anything. Neither did he. For eight months.
Full Description:
Salvatore Greco has spent twenty-two years as the Don's shadow — the man who runs everything, fixes everything, and asks for nothing in return. He knows every capo in the south, every contact in every port, every problem before it becomes one. What he doesn't know is how to want something for himself.
Then he drives to Reggio Calabria to fix a bike programme's maintenance schedule and meets Rosa Ierardi.
Rosa has been building her community programme for six years on nothing but stubbornness and a grant that barely covered six months. She's managed every problem alone — the bureaucrats, the funders, the well-meaning men who think they understand her work better than she does. She doesn't need saving. She doesn't need a large Neapolitan man showing up every week with tools and excuses.
She notices he keeps showing up anyway.
Eight Sundays. Then a Thursday. Then whatever's between. The man who shows up instead of talking and the woman who says exactly what she means about everything except this.
Until something goes wrong in Reggio. Until he makes one call he shouldn't have made without asking. Until she tells him, flat and direct, exactly what that means — and he drives two and a half hours to tell her she's right.
He's been the shadow long enough. Now he wants something of his own.
The Don's Shadow is a full-length dark Italian mafia romance featuring a quiet, devastatingly capable hero who shows up instead of talking, a direct and funny heroine who says true things and means them, slow-burn tension with serious heat, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book Three of The Blood Covenant series — can be read as a standalone, better read in order.
If you liked the brooding brother in His Forbidden Bride or the man who broke his own engagement in The Enemy's Don, this is the book you've been waiting for. Sal finally gets his story.
Content Tags:
#SlowBurn #DarkRomance #ItalianMafia #QuietHero #DirectHeroine #HeroineWhoSaysWhatSheThinks #ExplicitContent #MafiaRomance #KindleUnlimited #BloodCovenant #CosaNostra #CalabriaSetting #ForbiddenWorlds
He kept going back.
She knew it wasn't the bikes. She didn't say anything. Neither did he. For eight months.
Full Description:
Salvatore Greco has spent twenty-two years as the Don's shadow — the man who runs everything, fixes everything, and asks for nothing in return. He knows every capo in the south, every contact in every port, every problem before it becomes one. What he doesn't know is how to want something for himself.
Then he drives to Reggio Calabria to fix a bike programme's maintenance schedule and meets Rosa Ierardi.
Rosa has been building her community programme for six years on nothing but stubbornness and a grant that barely covered six months. She's managed every problem alone — the bureaucrats, the funders, the well-meaning men who think they understand her work better than she does. She doesn't need saving. She doesn't need a large Neapolitan man showing up every week with tools and excuses.
She notices he keeps showing up anyway.
Eight Sundays. Then a Thursday. Then whatever's between. The man who shows up instead of talking and the woman who says exactly what she means about everything except this.
Until something goes wrong in Reggio. Until he makes one call he shouldn't have made without asking. Until she tells him, flat and direct, exactly what that means — and he drives two and a half hours to tell her she's right.
He's been the shadow long enough. Now he wants something of his own.
The Don's Shadow is a full-length dark Italian mafia romance featuring a quiet, devastatingly capable hero who shows up instead of talking, a direct and funny heroine who says true things and means them, slow-burn tension with serious heat, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book Three of The Blood Covenant series — can be read as a standalone, better read in order.
If you liked the brooding brother in His Forbidden Bride or the man who broke his own engagement in The Enemy's Don, this is the book you've been waiting for. Sal finally gets his story.
Content Tags:
#SlowBurn #DarkRomance #ItalianMafia #QuietHero #DirectHeroine #HeroineWhoSaysWhatSheThinks #ExplicitContent #MafiaRomance #KindleUnlimited #BloodCovenant #CosaNostra #CalabriaSetting #ForbiddenWorlds
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