Owned by Valenti

Phoebe Marlowe has spent her life trying not to be noticed-
soft, timid, gentle to the bone.
But softness has no place in New York's criminal underworld.

When her grieving father signs a fatal contract with the Valenti crime syndicate, Phoebe becomes the debt.
At eighteen, she is handed over as the unwilling bride of Romeo Valenti-
the cold, ruthless heir to an empire built on blood, fear, and obedience.

Romeo doesn't want a wife.
He wants nothing to do with the fragile girl who flinches when he enters a room.
Yet the moment she steps into his world of marble floors and locked doors, Phoebe becomes a liability he can't ignore-and a weakness he never wanted.

She breaks rules she doesn't understand.
He punishes a girl who can barely lift her eyes.
She cries through dinner etiquette lessons.
He threatens to kill anyone who makes her cry again.

And when she tries to run, he hunts her.

But the deeper Phoebe sinks into the Valenti world, the more she sees its truest monster-
Dorian Valenti, Romeo's father, a kingpin who uses people like weapons and cages girls like pets.