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She dances under stadium lights. He rules from the shadows.
Melinda Owens was destined for bright lights and bold dreams, not a forced wedding to the most feared man in the city. But when her mother's reckless debts land her family in the crosshairs of the Irish mafia, the only thing standing between ruin and survival is a contract... and a ring.
Cormac O'Neil is the youngest Don to ever take the throne. Calculating, ruthless, and bound by a legacy soaked in blood, he doesn't do softness-until her. Marrying Melinda was supposed to be business. Clean. Cold. Controlled. Instead, she walks down the aisle like fire wrapped in silk, and everything he thought he wanted fractures.
He kills in back alleys. She dances in stadiums. They are nothing alike-except for the vows neither of them chose.
But under the weight of obligation, danger, and slow-burning desire, something begins to grow.
Something fierce. Something forbidden.
Something that just might break them both.