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Cold Hands, Burning Heart

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Reads 5,693
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Parts 88
Time 16h 28m

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In the ruthless world of the mafia, power rules-until love dares to break the code.

Feared. Calculated. Untouchable.
Catherine Hazel Marchetti is the reigning mafia queen-ice in her veins and blood on her hands. But everything spirals when a debt collection leads her to Elena -her junior, a girl far too kind for the brutal world Catherine owns.

To protect Elena from being sold off, Catherine makes a split-second decision: she buys her.

What starts as a power move soon unravels into something neither of them saw coming.
Tension simmers. Walls crack. Emotions stir.

But Catherine's past is a ticking bomb-and when it explodes, it threatens to take Elena with it.

Can love survive a world built on blood, betrayal, and secrets?
Or is the price of the heart just another debt to collect?


"She bought her to save her. She broke her to protect her."

"Mafia rules were simple - until she broke them for her"All Rights Reserved

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Melancholy

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