Usually, the mafia prince takes the captive. Not this time. I hold the chains.
A Reverse Age-Gap, Female Captor / Male Captive Dark Mafia Romance.
The Knight made his move. Romeo Rivas married in secret, defied a dead king's blood pact, and set the dynasty ablaze. But the war he ignited didn't strike the Knight—it struck the youngest son. Dante Rivas. Taken. Chained. Held by a ghost the family doesn't know exists. A dead king's system still executing from the grave, and a Mole rotting inside the empire's walls.
The weapon sent to break Dante is the woman who will either deliver him home—or destroy everything the Rivas name was built to protect.
ISADORA
I was hired to execute the youngest Rivas heir. Instead, I chained him to a chair.
Twenty years ago, his father punished me with annihilation. Giovanni Rivas erased my identity, relocated me, and rebuilt me into a lethal, unfeeling weapon. I have spent two decades surviving among mafia men who used the weapon and never cared if the woman beneath it existed.
My instructions were simple: end Giovanni’s bloodline. Revenge was supposed to be clean.
But Dante Rivas isn't a terrified boy. He is a nineteen-year-old lethal instrument who wears the same brutal training I do. He doesn't flinch. He watches me. He reads the twenty years of trauma hiding beneath my armor.
When I examine his bruised ribs, the tension in the room snaps. His green eyes burn through my defenses, and he hardens against my touch. When he pulls me in, he doesn't feel like a captive. He feels like a master. His mouth devours me, his hands finding places I’ve kept numb for two decades. I shatter against the concrete, making sounds I haven’t made in years.
I was the weapon. Dante made me the woman again.
But the man stripping me bare is the son of the king who destroyed my life. If I let him live, I betray my employers. If I let him touch me again, I betray myself.
Every king falls. Every bishop bleeds. Every knight wages war. Now the Rook moves—and the board will never be the same.
(ROOK is a dark, gritty, high-heat mafia romance featuring forced proximity, an older female captor, a lethal younger male captive, and a devastating enemies-to-lovers forbidden romance. It is the next installment in the Shattered Pieces series.)
Genre: Mystery
A Reverse Age-Gap, Female Captor / Male Captive Dark Mafia Romance.
The Knight made his move. Romeo Rivas married in secret, defied a dead king's blood pact, and set the dynasty ablaze. But the war he ignited didn't strike the Knight—it struck the youngest son. Dante Rivas. Taken. Chained. Held by a ghost the family doesn't know exists. A dead king's system still executing from the grave, and a Mole rotting inside the empire's walls.
The weapon sent to break Dante is the woman who will either deliver him home—or destroy everything the Rivas name was built to protect.
ISADORA
I was hired to execute the youngest Rivas heir. Instead, I chained him to a chair.
Twenty years ago, his father punished me with annihilation. Giovanni Rivas erased my identity, relocated me, and rebuilt me into a lethal, unfeeling weapon. I have spent two decades surviving among mafia men who used the weapon and never cared if the woman beneath it existed.
My instructions were simple: end Giovanni’s bloodline. Revenge was supposed to be clean.
But Dante Rivas isn't a terrified boy. He is a nineteen-year-old lethal instrument who wears the same brutal training I do. He doesn't flinch. He watches me. He reads the twenty years of trauma hiding beneath my armor.
When I examine his bruised ribs, the tension in the room snaps. His green eyes burn through my defenses, and he hardens against my touch. When he pulls me in, he doesn't feel like a captive. He feels like a master. His mouth devours me, his hands finding places I’ve kept numb for two decades. I shatter against the concrete, making sounds I haven’t made in years.
I was the weapon. Dante made me the woman again.
But the man stripping me bare is the son of the king who destroyed my life. If I let him live, I betray my employers. If I let him touch me again, I betray myself.
Every king falls. Every bishop bleeds. Every knight wages war. Now the Rook moves—and the board will never be the same.
(ROOK is a dark, gritty, high-heat mafia romance featuring forced proximity, an older female captor, a lethal younger male captive, and a devastating enemies-to-lovers forbidden romance. It is the next installment in the Shattered Pieces series.)
Genre: Mystery