Ruthless Crown

Bianca Moretti has survived Chicago's most dangerous rooms by letting men mistake polish for obedience. Now the Kings franchise is under league scrutiny, the Moretti empire is bleeding power, and the price of stopping a forced sale is a treaty marriage to the one man her family should never trust.

Lorenzo Vale is a rival heir with a quiet voice, dirty hands, and enough voting influence to save the Kings or help strip them from the Morettis forever. He wants Bianca in his house, under his security, wearing his ring for every camera that needs proof the families are at peace. Bianca agrees because refusal would punish the people she has spent years protecting, but she has no intention of becoming another beautiful thing traded across a table.

Inside Lorenzo's Gold Coast residence, every public touch is a weapon and every private concession costs more than either of them planned. Bianca knows desire can be a trap. Lorenzo knows love gives enemies a target. But the longer they play husband and wife, the harder it becomes to tell where the lie ends.

Their marriage was meant to end a war. It may crown a worse one.

Ruthless Crown is a dark mafia arranged marriage romance featuring rival families, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, a possessive morally gray husband, and explicit open-door heat.