Before We Knew

She never wanted a family. He never expected to find one with her.

Sanaa grew up in an orphanage and spent her life refusing to belong to anyone. Fiercely independent, sharp-tongued and unapologetically free, she built her own life on her own terms, between engines, grease-stained hands, trying to forget the kind of past that never truly lets you go.

Until the day everything changes.

In a single moment, she finds herself with a baby in her arms and a responsibility she never asked for.

Massimo Salvatore is fighting to protect the power and prestige of a mafia family that cannot afford to fall. Beneath his charming smile and careless humor hides a ruthless predator willing to do whatever it takes to defend what belongs to him.

But his plans shatter when he learns he has a son.

An heir who could change everything.

An heir protected by a mechanic-smuggler who has no intention of backing down.

And Sanaa has far more tricks up her sleeve than anyone expects