MAFIA IN CHICAGO

Gabrielle Spencer never asked for danger.
At just twenty-three, she's been holding her world together with tired hands and a fierce heart-working double shifts at a Chicago diner while raising her two younger sisters. Her life is simple. Predictable. Safe.
Until the night the DeLuca brothers walk in.
Giovanni DeLuca, the ruthless and feared Mafia King of Chicago, enters the diner expecting a money exchange. He leaves with something he never saw coming-a woman who stands up to him, challenges him, and becomes a target because of him.
When Gabrielle gets caught in the crossfire of a violent attack meant for Giovanni, everything she's tried to protect comes crashing down. Forced into Giovanni's world for her own safety, Gabrielle is pulled into a deadly war she wants no part of... and an undeniable tension she can't ignore.
Giovanni is used to bloodshed, loyalty, and control.
He is not used to someone looking him in the eyes without fear.
And he certainly isn't used to caring what happens to anyone outside his family.
But Gabrielle is different.
A spark in the shadows.
A weakness he can't afford-yet refuses to let go of.
As rival mafia families close in and secrets begin to unravel, Gabrielle must decide whether Giovanni is her greatest danger...
or the only person capable of keeping her alive.
In a city ruled by power, betrayal, and bullets, two strangers from opposite worlds collide-
and nothing in Chicago will ever be the same.