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Amara Bennett never believed in fate - not after watching her father bleed out on the cold pavement of Brooklyn when she was fifteen. A small-time hustler with big dreams, her father owed money to the wrong people. The debt was paid in blood.
Now a decade later, Amara's built a quiet life as a trauma nurse at St. Luke's, keeping her past locked away behind hard eyes and steady hands. But when a bleeding stranger is wheeled into her ER one night - a man with dark eyes, a gunshot wound, and a name whispered like a curse - her life begins to unravel all over again.
Matteo De Luca, heir to one of Italy's most feared mafia dynasties, came to New York to clean up the family's business - and to destroy the man who betrayed them. Cold, precise, and merciless, Matteo has no room for weakness, least of all love. But when he wakes to find his life saved by a woman who should have looked away, he's drawn to her with a hunger that defies logic.
Amara doesn't know that Matteo's family had a hand in her father's death. Matteo doesn't know that the woman haunting his nights carries the bloodline of a rival his family swore to erase.
Their worlds collide in violence and desire - a war between past and present, loyalty and love.
What begins as a debt of gratitude turns into obsession. Matteo marks her as his. Amara swears she'll never belong to a man like him.
But the truth has its own chains.
They're bound - not by choice, not by fate - but by blood.