As the polished eldest daughter of a powerful crime family, she is expected to smile for cameras, protect the family name, and turn dangerous alliances into beautiful public stories. No one is supposed to see the woman beneath the carefully controlled image—or discover the deadly secret buried beneath an abandoned church.
But someone knows what happened there.
When a white rose and an anonymous warning appear above the hidden grave, Serafina realizes the past is no longer safely buried. Then her father announces a marriage alliance between her younger sister and Dante Vescari, the feared heir to a rival mafia dynasty.
Dante is cold, observant, and dangerously difficult to deceive. From their first meeting, he sees through Serafina’s carefully constructed innocence. The attraction between them is immediate, forbidden, and impossible to ignore—but surrendering to it could betray her sister, destroy the fragile peace between their families, and expose the secret that could ruin them all.
As threats close in and loyalties begin to fracture, Serafina must decide whom she can trust before the truth rises from the grave.
The Darkest Devotion: Part One is a gripping dark mafia romance filled with forbidden attraction, buried secrets, rival families,
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