She had been hunting him for two years before she met him.
He had known she was coming the whole time.
Special Agent Lena De Santis, FBI Organised Crime Division, is twenty-seven months into the most careful federal investigation of her career. The target is Marco Battaglia — Wharton-educated, Manhattan-polished, the venture-capital cover of the most powerful Italian-American family in the boroughs. By any measure, he should have been the route to his older brother. By month nine, Lena had decided he was the case.
When she finally walks across the foyer of a Carnegie Hall gala to hand him her card, Marco adjusts his shoulders four degrees before she arrives. He has been waiting seven years for federal contact. He has not, in seven years, been waiting for Lena.
Across forty-eight hours in an FBI safe house in Bayside, Queens — with six microphones, a security detail on a feed-pause in the basement, and a forty-six-hour conversation he never planned to have — Marco Battaglia decides what kind of man he is going to be about her.
And Lena decides what kind of agent she is going to be about him.
A slow-burn forbidden-love mafia romance about a federal agent and the target she cannot bring herself to prosecute. Cooperation. Witness protection. A second-line beneficiary clause. An Astoria mother who knew at first glance. A brother who has to choose. And a man who finally stops charming and starts being.
He had known she was coming the whole time.
Special Agent Lena De Santis, FBI Organised Crime Division, is twenty-seven months into the most careful federal investigation of her career. The target is Marco Battaglia — Wharton-educated, Manhattan-polished, the venture-capital cover of the most powerful Italian-American family in the boroughs. By any measure, he should have been the route to his older brother. By month nine, Lena had decided he was the case.
When she finally walks across the foyer of a Carnegie Hall gala to hand him her card, Marco adjusts his shoulders four degrees before she arrives. He has been waiting seven years for federal contact. He has not, in seven years, been waiting for Lena.
Across forty-eight hours in an FBI safe house in Bayside, Queens — with six microphones, a security detail on a feed-pause in the basement, and a forty-six-hour conversation he never planned to have — Marco Battaglia decides what kind of man he is going to be about her.
And Lena decides what kind of agent she is going to be about him.
A slow-burn forbidden-love mafia romance about a federal agent and the target she cannot bring herself to prosecute. Cooperation. Witness protection. A second-line beneficiary clause. An Astoria mother who knew at first glance. A brother who has to choose. And a man who finally stops charming and starts being.
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