She married the most dangerous man in Kansas City to save her father. She married into his family to find her brother’s killer.

Three years ago, Mira Costa found her brother dead beside a needle he never would have touched. The police called it an overdose. Mira knew better. She spent years searching for the truth, until her father’s gambling debt finally opened the one door she could never get through on her own: the Orsini family. Four hundred thousand dollars. One impossible bargain. Marry Lazzaro Orsini, and the debt disappears.

Lazzaro is thirty-eight, ruthless, controlled, and next in line to inherit one of the city’s most powerful crime families. He has spent nineteen years making certain there is nothing in his life an enemy can use against him. A wife is the last thing he wants, especially a quiet little florist with watchful eyes and secrets of her own.

Mira says yes, because the Orsinis owned the company her brother worked for before he died, and because somewhere inside Lazzaro’s house is the truth she’s been hunting. And because getting close enough to destroy a monster sometimes means sleeping beside one. But Lazzaro isn’t the man Mira expected.

Behind the blood and power is a man who tends orchids with the same careful hands that make other men afraid. A man who sees too much. A man who begins protecting his unwanted wife with a devotion neither of them planned for. The closer Mira gets to the truth, the more dangerous her marriage becomes. Because someone inside the Orsini family killed her brother. Someone has been watching her search. And by the time Mira discovers exactly who tied that needle into Gabe’s arm, she has something far more dangerous than revenge to lose.

She’s fallen in love with her husband.

A dark, spicy mafia romance featuring an arranged marriage, an age-gap couple, a florist heroine with secrets, a ruthless heir who falls hard for his wife, family betrayal, murder, revenge, and a hard-won HEA.

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