BOUND BY HIS SHADOW||18+

When Catherine Monroe answers a late-night call, she expects a wrong number. Instead, a velvet-smooth voice whispers a promise that chills her blood and ignites a forbidden curiosity: "One day, I'll take you away."

For months, the mysterious calls continue-always gentle, always terrifying. What Catherine doesn't know is that Alessio Romano, a powerful and ruthless Italian mafia boss, has been watching her every move. To the criminal underworld, he's a man feared by many. To Catherine, he is only a phantom in the dark...until the night he steps out of the shadows and tears her from the life she knows.

Trapped in his world of power, secrets, and blood feuds, Catherine discovers that beneath Alessio's dangerous exterior is a man who burns for her with a consuming, obsessive devotion. As the clock counts down on the year he's given her, passion and peril intertwine. To survive, she must decide if she can love the man who stole her freedom-or if she'll risk everything to escape him.

In the underworld of betrayal and desire, can love bloom where fear first took root?