Bride by Debt I: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance of Stolen Vows, Dangerous Obsession, and a Don Who Claims What He Owns

Her father stole ten million dollars. Aria Bellandi is the price.

Aria’s future was supposed to begin in Florence—with freedom, art, and a life untouched by her father’s endless mistakes.

Instead, she returns home during a violent storm and finds the most feared man in New York waiting in her father’s study.

Nikolai De Luca is cold, powerful, and dangerously controlled. He does not forgive betrayal, and he has come to collect what the Bellandi family owes.

Her.

Aria refuses to become another possession traded between powerful men. She runs, fights, and challenges Nikolai at every turn—but escaping a Mafia Don who always seems one step ahead may be impossible.

Forced into a marriage she never chose and taken to a mansion filled with guards, secrets, and locked doors, Aria expects cruelty. What she does not expect is Nikolai’s restraint—or the unsettling feeling that his obsession with her began long before the debt.

As dangerous enemies close in, hatred burns into forbidden attraction, and Aria must decide whether the man holding the key to her cage may also be the only one capable of keeping worse monsters away.

Bride by Debt: Part One is a dark, emotionally intense Mafia arranged-marriage romance featuring a defiant heroine, a possessive Don, forced proximity, dangerous obsession, stolen vows, and a gripping cliffhanger. Intended for readers aged 18 and over.

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