From bestselling author Oona Ryda comes a high-heat, over-the-top arranged-marriage mafia romance featuring a lost heiress who doesn't know her real name, a decades-old blood oath sworn before God, a heroine with nowhere left to run, and a volatile, lethal JP/OTT antihero who'll paint Chicago red to keep a promise he never made.
Dario Corsini has always lived in his brother's shadow, and he likes it there. Let Dante play kingmaker. Dario is the man they call when the job is too dark for daylight—the family's assassin, quick with a joke and quicker with a trigger. He doesn't do politics. He doesn't do commitment. And he sure as hell doesn't do marriage.
Until an old vow comes due.
Allegra Esposito was abandoned as an infant with no name, no family, and no known history. Twenty years later, she's sleeping in a homeless shelter, hiding from an abusive foster brother, and holding onto one last hope—that a DNA test might prove someone, somewhere, is family.
Her search stirs up a hornet’s nest—a murdered bloodline, a covenant written in a parish register, a promise made before she was born binding the last Marchesi daughter to a son of House Corsini, and the killers her mother hid her from all those years ago who have emerged from the shadows to finish the job.
The only thing standing between Allegra and a bullet is a dangerous, grinning stranger who claims she's his queen.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Dario Corsini has always lived in his brother's shadow, and he likes it there. Let Dante play kingmaker. Dario is the man they call when the job is too dark for daylight—the family's assassin, quick with a joke and quicker with a trigger. He doesn't do politics. He doesn't do commitment. And he sure as hell doesn't do marriage.
Until an old vow comes due.
Allegra Esposito was abandoned as an infant with no name, no family, and no known history. Twenty years later, she's sleeping in a homeless shelter, hiding from an abusive foster brother, and holding onto one last hope—that a DNA test might prove someone, somewhere, is family.
Her search stirs up a hornet’s nest—a murdered bloodline, a covenant written in a parish register, a promise made before she was born binding the last Marchesi daughter to a son of House Corsini, and the killers her mother hid her from all those years ago who have emerged from the shadows to finish the job.
The only thing standing between Allegra and a bullet is a dangerous, grinning stranger who claims she's his queen.
Genre: Romantic Suspense