Falling for the Mafia Boss

"For years he watched from a distance. Now she's finally his to protect."

Ashley Manes thought moving to New York would be the fresh start she desperately needed.

After catching her boyfriend, Chase Walker, cheating on her yet again, Ashley decides she's done giving second chances. At twenty years old and just months away from her twenty-first birthday, she leaves Knoxville, Tennessee behind and moves to New York City to live with her childhood best friend, Isabella Valentino.

What Ashley doesn't expect is to come face-to-face with the one boy she's never been able to forget.

Austin Valentino.

Isabella's older brother.

Her first crush.

The man she's secretly loved since she was fifteen.

Now twenty-six, Austin is everything he wasn't back then-powerful, dangerous, and impossibly handsome. To the outside world, he's a successful businessman.

What Ashley doesn't know is that Austin is one of the most feared mafia bosses in New York.

For years, Austin kept his distance.

For years, he watched Ashley love the wrong man.

For years, he buried feelings he could never act on because she belonged to someone else.

But Ashley is finally free.

And Austin has no intention of letting her slip away again.

As old feelings resurface and danger begins closing in, Ashley finds herself falling for the one man she should run from.

Because loving a mafia boss comes with a price.

And Austin Valentino is willing to risk everything to protect the girl he's loved all along.