Siobhan O'Sullivan built her father's financial empire into a fortress no federal investigator could crack. She's the smartest person in every room she enters—and the last woman in Boston who should be traded like currency.

But when her father signs a proxy marriage contract to end a three-generation blood feud, Siobhan is delivered to Ronan Callahan's penthouse with forty-eight hours' notice and zero consent.

Ronan Callahan controls the Callahan crime family with surveillance systems, biometric locks, and the kind of precision that keeps enemies in the ground. He didn't choose a wife—he acquired a strategic asset. GPS tracking. Armed escorts. A gilded cage forty-two stories above a city she can no longer move through freely.

He expected tears. Compliance. A woman who understood her place.

Instead, she found the blind spot in his security system during the car ride over.

When a conspiracy targeting Irish-American criminal dynasties begins dismantling Callahan operations from the inside, Ronan's fortress proves useless against an enemy who's already past the walls. The only person who can see the pattern is the wife he locked in a cage—the financial analyst whose mind works three moves ahead of everyone in the room, including him.

Now Siobhan must choose: escape the man who owns her, or become the weapon he never knew he needed.

She's about to teach the most powerful crime lord in Boston that the most dangerous thing in his empire was never his enemies.

It was his wife.

■ Heat Level: Dark / Explicit

■ Tone: Dark, Suspenseful, Emotional

■ Series: Brutal Dynasty, Book 1 of 3 (Interconnected Standalones)

■ Ending: HEA

■ POV: Dual First Person

■ Content Notes: Arranged marriage without consent, organized crime violence, captivity, explicit sexual content, themes of control and autonomy

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Perfect for fans of Cora Reilly, Danielle Lori, and Rina Kent.

Stolen Sovereign is the explosive first book in the Brutal Dynasty trilogy. Each book follows a different couple in the Irish Kings coalition. No cliffhanger.

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