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a world where love is a liability and lies are armor, **Adil Moretti** walks a razor's edge. By day, he's a charming bookstore owner in Venice, stealing glances at **Roshi Rossi**-a spirited florist whose laughter melts his icy resolve. By night, he's the ruthless heir to the Moretti crime syndicate, battling the Bratva mafia for control of Europe's underworld.
When Adil's double life collides with Roshi's sunlit world, their chemistry ignites like a match in a powder keg. But as their romance deepens, so do the dangers: cryptic Russian threats, a gun hidden beneath Dante's *Inferno*, and a scarred Bratva kingpin, **Viktor Ivanov**, who vows to destroy Adil by stealing the one thing he never meant to love.
After Roshi is kidnapped, Adil's masks crumble. To save her, he must confront the monster he's become-even if it means staining his hands with blood she'll never forgive. But Roshi is no damsel: armed with GPS-tagged rose thorns and a hacker ally, she fights to survive Viktor's clutches... and to unearth the man beneath the mafia prince.
A heart-pounding tale of **obsession, sacrifice, and redemption**, *Beneath the Mask* asks: Can love bloom in the soil of secrets, or will it wither when the bullets start to fly?
**Perfect for fans of:**
- *The Dark Verse*'s morally gray antiheroes
- *City of Thorns*' gritty romance
- *Twisted Games*' blend of passion and peril
**Tropes:**
- "Who did this to you?!" x "*You did*."
- Forced proximity (kidnapping x rescue)
- "I lied about everything... except wanting you."
- Villain's tragic backstory vs. Hero's redemption
**Trigger Warnings:**
- Violence, kidnapping, implied trauma.
- morally ambiguous choices.