Bound by his name

Eighteen-year-old [female lead] Rossi has spent her entire life surviving poverty, clinging to education as her only way out. A scholarship places her in a world of wealth and power that was never meant for someone like her-until she crosses paths with Alessandro De Luca, a forty-four-year-old billionaire professor whose influence extends far beyond the university walls.

Respected by academia and feared in the criminal underworld, Alessandro is an Italian mafia boss disguised as a man of refinement. Cold, dominant, and dangerously controlled, he does not pursue-he claims. When her father's unpaid debt entangles her family in his web, the girl becomes collateral in a game she never agreed to play.

What begins as fear turns into forced proximity. What begins as hatred twists into obsession. Bound by secrets, power, and a forbidden connection neither can escape, student and professor become enemies locked in a dangerous dance where control and desire blur.

As loyalty is tested, enemies close in, and the line between protection and possession disappears, she must decide whether Alessandro De Luca is her captor...or the only man ruthless enough to keep her alive.

Bound by His Name is a dark age-gap mafia romance filled with forbidden desire, psychological tension, and a love as dangerous as the man who claims it.