Valentino

Ninety days.

That’s how long I have to get married—or forfeit my claim to the Carucci empire and lose everything my father built.

Then I saw her outside Monarch.

A bride-to-be… promised to the enemy.

She was just a political pawn, gifted to the mafia by her power-hungry father looking to be re-elected as governor.

Taking her as mine would result in bloodshed. Chaos. A war.

But I’m out of time with too much to lose...and she’s the solution I never expected.

I stole her to save my family.

Now she’s the only thing I’d go to war to protect.

She’s mine.

And I’ll bury anyone who says otherwise.

Giselle

I'd only met Valentino Carucci twice before he shattered my life.

Once when he crashed my bachelorette party.

And again at my wedding, when he killed my fiancé and took his place at the altar.

I was a pawn in my father’s political scheme, bartered into a marriage I never wanted.

Now I’m bound to a man even more dangerous--

A man who started a war the second he put that ring on my finger.

He’s cold. Calculated. Everything I was taught to fear.

But behind the threats and bloodshed, there’s something else.

Something that looks a lot like protection.

Something that feels a lot like obsession.

I should hate him. And maybe I still do.

But the longer I’m his wife, the more I wonder…

What if he’s the only one who’s ever seen me as more than a pawn?