Marked by His World.

Taralynn Bianchi.

She was young, ambitious, and dangerously out of place in a world built on power and blood. Driven by dreams bigger than her circumstances, she never meant to brush against the mafia-yet one wrong decision, one moment of proximity to the wrong people, pulls her into an underworld where loyalty is currency and survival is never guaranteed. What begins as a fight to protect herself slowly becomes a test of who she's willing to become.

At the center of it all stands Alessandro DeLuca-a man feared more than he is known. Cold, calculating, and utterly unyielding, he rules his empire with a steady hand and an iron will. Emotions are weaknesses he buried long ago, and love has no place in his carefully controlled world. But her presence unsettles him in ways no rival ever has. As danger tightens around them, lines blur between protection and possession, ambition and desire. In a world where trust can be fatal, their connection may be the one thing that saves them-or destroys them both.