fierce_winds
Isabella Beaumont (Bella to the people she loves) has spent years trying to escape the world she was born into.
The daughter of Lucien and Camille Beaumont, Isabelle grew up surrounded by power, money, and the dangerous legacy of one of France's most influential crime families. But unlike her father, Bella wants nothing to do with that life. She built her own fashion empire, choosing runways and designs over guns, alliances, and family business.
She's sunshine in a world that has always been anything but.
Until her father makes a deal she can't escape.
Alessandro Romano, head of one of Sicily's most powerful mafia families, approaches the Beaumonts with an offer: an alliance strong enough to protect both families.
But alliances come with conditions.
And this one comes with a marriage.
Belle is to marry Matteo Romano, Alessandro's eldest son.
Matteo is everything Belle despises about the world she's spent years running from-cold, intimidating, calculating, and completely comfortable with the power his family holds.
And Matteo doesn't exactly welcome his new bride with open arms.
She's too bright. Too stubborn. Too determined to challenge him.
He's too cold. Too impossible to read.
They clash from the moment they meet.
But their fathers have already made the decision for them.
Now Isabella Beaumont and Matteo Romano are forced into a marriage neither of them wanted, living under the same roof while two powerful families watch their every move.
Bella wanted to escape the mafia.
Instead, she married into it.
And the one man she can't stand might just become the one person she can never imagine losing.