Bruised petals & Crimson Promises

✨ Book Description
Emily has spent her whole life surviving, not living.
In a house where love should exist, she is nothing but a reminder of a past her family hates-her late mother. Every day brings new wounds, some visible, most hidden deep within her fragile heart. And the silence of her father hurts just as much as the cruelty of her stepmother and stepsister.
But everything begins to change the moment she steps into university.
There, she meets Nevaeh-unexpected, warm, and kind in a way Emily has never known. For the first time, she feels seen... safe, even. What she doesn't know is that this friendship will pull her into a world far more dangerous than the one she's trying to escape.
Because Nevaeh has a brother.
Dante.
Feared. Untouchable. A man whose name alone carries power and danger. The leader of the Italian mafia. He wasn't supposed to notice her.
But he did.
One glance at the quiet girl with broken eyes and soft smiles, obsessed with nothing but pink, and suddenly, she's everywhere-in his thoughts, in his dreams, in the silence of every night he tries to forget her.
She becomes his obsession.
And Dante doesn't walk away from what he wants.
But Emily is not just a girl to be claimed-she's a girl trying to heal.
And as her past begins to catch up with her, Dante is faced with something he's never dealt with before:
Saving someone... without breaking them.