THIS IS THE STORY OF FORBIDDEN LOVE.
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Of a girl raised in silence and the Mafia king who took her.
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Ninath Black is almost sixteen, with wildfire hair, stardust freckles, and emerald eyes too soft for a world that never loved her back. Raised behind the chapel walls of a Catholic orphanage on Long Island, she has no idea where she came from, or that her blood belongs to Marius Black, New York's Mafia king. A daughter hidden for sixteen years... until fate delivers her to the one man who was never supposed to find her.
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Xander La Cenacio is thirty-two. Italian Mafia royalty. Carved from darkness. Baptized in blood. Raised to rule. His hands end lives, his name leaves men trembling, and no one touches what he claims. Ninath was supposed to be leverage. Marius Black's long-lost daughter. The perfect weapon against his enemy. Then Xander saw her. Too innocent for his world. Too beautiful for his sanity. And suddenly handing her over became impossible. So he did what monsters do when they find something beautiful.
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HE STOLE HER.
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Ninath doesn't know whose blood runs in her veins. She doesn't know that the man who opened her cage is quietly locking another behind her. Because Xander gives her everything she never had. Freedom. Protection. A home. Someone who promises never to abandon her. For the first time, Ninath feels chosen. Loved. Safe. But iron cages are easy to recognize. The gilded ones are not.
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And Ninath is changing. In Xander's world of blood, silk, power and fear, she learns that love can look frighteningly like obsession. Some bloodlines never forget. Some grudges never die. And some obsessions don't fade.
They evolve.
They sharpen.
They grow teeth.
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When Ninath finally learns the truth, she'll have to choose. Does she leave? Can love survive betrayal, war, and murder? Or is theirs the kind of love story that was always destined to end with someone bleeding? A man born into violence. And a love so wrong...it may already be too deep to un
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