SHADOW BRIDE

Charlotte Hayes has spent her entire life obeying the rules.

As the daughter of one of America's most influential senators, every decision she has ever made has been carefully orchestrated by people who value power more than family.

When her father is kidnapped during an international diplomatic summit, Charlotte receives an impossible demand.

Marry Marco DeLuca.

The future king of Sicily's oldest mafia dynasty.

The marriage is supposed to unite politicians and organized crime under a single alliance.

Instead, it ignites a war.

Marco never wanted a wife.

Charlotte never wanted a husband.

Yet both are trapped inside a marriage built on lies, surrounded by enemies hiding behind family names and political titles.

As Charlotte adjusts to life inside the centuries-old DeLuca estate overlooking the Mediterranean, she uncovers secret journals revealing that Marco's mother never disappeared.

She was murdered.

Or so everyone believed.

The deeper Charlotte investigates, the more she realizes the DeLuca family has been manipulated by an invisible council that controls governments, banks, and criminal organizations across Europe.

Marco has spent years trying to destroy that council from within.

Charlotte becomes the missing piece of a plan decades in the making.

Together they must expose the conspiracy before another generation is sacrificed for power.

But falling in love was never part of the arrangement.

In a world where loyalty is bought with blood and marriages begin as business deals, their greatest act of rebellion may be choosing each other.

Sometimes destiny wears a wedding ring.

Sometimes it hides behind a loaded gun.