Lies and Marital Ties

Callista De Luca

It's no easy thing, being a woman in my world. We are sold like cattle and treated like them too. Made to be traded, bred, and used. I refuse to be subjected to such a heinous fate. So much so that I have gone to great lengths to avoid such a life, to protect myself and those I love. Lengths that would cost me my life and the lives of those I love. So, they have to be a secret - my secret. In order to stay alive, no one can know about what I do.

I have to keep my secret. Nothing else matters.

Koen Moretti

It's no easy thing, being the head of the New York Cosa Nostra. I have enemies everywhere I look, and the pressure would crush anyone other than me. I have fought tooth an nail, and lost many close to me in order to get where I am, and nothing and no one can take away what I've built. It's all I have, all I want, and all I need.

I have to keep my empire. Nothing else matters.

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Callista De Luca and Koen Moretti are both focused on their own agendas. Callista is protecting her secret and herself as vehemently as Koen is his empire. And neither of their plans involved the other person. But in a turn of events, the two are forced not only to acknowledge each other, but to come together in holy matrimony. Tempers flare, agendas clash, and backs are stabbed. But can the two work together to get passed their biases and personal interests? To work through their pasts and come out the other side? To see someone else rather than themselves for a change? They better hope so, because lives are on the line, and they have to make sure it isn't crossed.

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Trigger Warning: Contains mature themes such as murder, blood, and sexual abuse.