He never expected to become the one man willing to burn everything down to keep her.
Knox DeLuca has spent years rebuilding the empire that was nearly destroyed by one powerful family. His brother was murdered. His father was left broken. And the man responsible, Salvatore Moretti, has continued living as though the DeLucas were nothing more than casualties of war.
Knox intends to change that.
His plan is ruthless, calculated, and simple: destroy Salvatore from the inside.
And the perfect way in is through his daughter.
Elena Moretti has spent most of her life running from the darkness attached to her family name. As a trauma surgeon, she saves lives instead of taking them. She wants nothing to do with her father’s criminal empire, his enemies, or the dangerous men who come with it.
Especially Knox DeLuca.
But when her younger brother disappears, Knox gives Elena a choice she never imagined she would have to make.
Marry him, and her brother comes home alive.
Elena knows the marriage is a trap.
She just doesn’t know how deep it goes.
Living beneath Knox’s roof means enduring his rules, his secrets, his infuriating control, and the attraction neither of them wants to acknowledge. Their arguments become hotter. Their hatred becomes harder to separate from desire. And the cold, merciless man Elena swore she would never trust begins showing her pieces of himself no one else is allowed to see.
But Knox has been lying from the beginning.
Elena was never supposed to become important to him.
She was leverage.
A weapon.
A temporary wife he planned to discard once her father’s empire was destroyed.
Then revenge became obsession.
Possession became protection.
And somewhere between hatred and desire, the woman Knox intended to use became the one person he could no longer afford to lose.
Now buried secrets are surfacing, old betrayals are changing everything they thought they knew, and someone inside the DeLuca family is determined to make sure the war ends in blood.
Knox must finally decide what matters more.
The vengeance he has lived for…
Or the wife he was never supposed to love.
KNOX is a dark mafia revenge marriage romance featuring enemies to lovers, forced proximity, a possessive mafia hero, a strong heroine, family secrets, betrayal, jealousy, slow-burn tension, and a dangerous marriage that becomes far more real than either of them planned.