CeeM1801
Seventeen-year-old Elsie Romano was never meant to know the truth about her family. Hidden away on a lonely Scottish beach, her parents kept her safe from the empire they escaped- the Romanos, one of America's most powerful and feared crime dynasties.
When her parents die suddenly, Elsie is dragged across the ocean into a world of luxury and blood, where loyalty is currency and betrayal is a death sentence. Her grandfather, the Romano patriarch, demands she do what her father never could: repair the broken alliance with the Moretti family through marriage.
But the Morettis are not what she expected.
Her engagement is to their golden son - the heir everyone worships and fears. Charming on the surface, but beneath the smile lies cruelty. vicious. Manipulative. Addicted to control.
A boy raised to break things just to prove he can.
And then there's Luca Moretti, the family's shame. The bastard son they can't erase, the shadow that follows their name.
He's everything his brother isn't: quiet, dangerous, loyal to no one. He has no claim to power, no right to her, and no reason to protect her... but he does.
As enemies close in and old vendettas resurface, Elsie finds herself torn between the man she's bound to and the one who would burn both empires to keep her safe.
In this world, love isn't salvation.
It's a weapon - and she's about to pull the trigger.