Empire of Her Making
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Empire of Her Making is a glitter-noir, mafia romance set in modern New York, following Apollonia "Nia" Vittorini - the "Madonna" and reigning head of one of the city's most powerful crime syndicates.
For ten years, Nia has carried the weight of inheritance without flinching. She knows which alliances to nurture, which enemies to starve, and how to keep her empire steady with nothing more than a look. Control is survival. Control is safety.
Then Marco Cappello walks into her world.
He is charming, perceptive, and far too comfortable in rooms built on secrets. With him, Nia feels something she has spent a decade denying herself: the dangerous pull of being seen, not as the Madonna, not as the heir - but as a woman.
What she doesn't know is that Marco is Giovanni Sigliano, the disgraced son of a rival dynasty, hiding from the brother who tried to kill him.
As old rivalries stir and power begins to shift, Nia must decide how much of herself she can afford to give - when every vulnerability is leverage, and love may be the one risk she was never trained to take.
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