Crown Of Ruin: Dark Mafia Romance

My father died protecting a secret powerful enough to bury an empire.

Years later, Dante Rinaldi comes looking for it.

He tears me from my quiet life and locks me inside his isolated fortress, convinced I possess the key to a hidden ledger tied to his father’s murder. Dante is cold, merciless, and accustomed to getting everything he wants. Unfortunately for him, fear has never made me obedient.

The longer I remain trapped with him, the more dangerous the line between hatred and desire becomes. His hands make captivity feel sinful. His protection becomes something I crave far more than I should. And beneath all that brutality, I begin to see the wounds that made him into the monster standing before me.

The secret connecting our fathers could destroy everything.

Getting close enough to uncover it might destroy me first.

DANTE

Rosalie was supposed to be a means to an end.

Her father took something from my family before he died, and I’ve spent ten years hunting for it. I brought his daughter into my home because she was the final piece of a debt written in blood.

Then she became the one temptation I couldn't keep at a distance.

She challenges me, studies me, and looks straight through every layer of control I spent years building. I want the secret buried in her past, but my hunger for her has become darker than revenge.

Every day she spends beneath my roof makes possession feel less like strategy and more like necessity.

I took Rosalie to uncover the truth.

Now I want every secret she has left.

This is the first book in the The Fallen Crown Series. Reading order: Crown Of Ruin, Crown Of Chains, Crown Of Thorns.