26 parts Ongoing MatureShe was the light he never deserved.
He was the darkness she could never escape.
When twenty-one-year-old Maria Turner, a sweet, soft-spoken American girl, is thrust into an arranged marriage with Enzo DeLuca, the cold and feared heir of Italy's most powerful mafia family, her world is turned upside down. Palermo becomes her gilded cage - beautiful, dangerous, and filled with secrets that whisper through marble halls and candlelit dinners.
Enzo is everything Maria was warned about - ruthless, commanding, merciless to his enemies. But behind the steel in his eyes lies a man who would burn the world to protect the woman he loves. To him, Maria is untouchable. Sacred. His only weakness in a world built on blood and loyalty.
As Maria learns to navigate the violent underworld she's married into, love blooms between them - fierce, consuming, and forbidden. But the deeper she falls for Enzo, the more she realizes love in his world has a price.
And when enemies come for them both, Maria will discover that loving a mafia king means standing beside him - even if it means standing in the fire.
A story of passion, power, and devotion, The Rose and the Bullet is a breathtaking mafia romance about a love that defies fear, rules, and death itself.