THE ENEMY’S MERCY
About
Camilla Orsini has spent months repairing Harbor Light Foundation after learning her father used its protected residences for criminal ends. Then she walks into a shuttered refuge house and finds a former beneficiary standing over a dead De Santis soldier.
The woman says she was defending herself. Camilla believes one thing immediately: no one is taking her anywhere she has not chosen to go.
Julian De Santis arrives with an order to do exactly that.
A senior capo trusted to turn Commission judgments into fact, Julian is quiet, controlled, and lethal. But the retrieval order was written too early, and he knows the men who replace him will be worse. So he offers Camilla twenty-one days to prove the refuge network has been compromised.
The bargain puts her records in his reach, his armed men around her buildings, and the two of them too close for hostility to stay simple. Camilla refuses to trade autonomy for protection. Julian can command a room with one sentence, yet the thing that draws her to him is the one thing his rank cannot force: he waits when she says no.
As family pressure closes in and an old De Santis order threatens everything they are building, Julian must decide what loyalty is worth when obedience protects the wrong people. Camilla must decide how much truth Harbor Light can survive without letting another family turn protection into ownership.
The Enemy’s Mercy is a high-heat Italian-American mafia romance with enemies to lovers, forced proximity, a morally gray enforcer, a strong heroine, clean consent, dangerous devotion, and a complete HEA.
Book 3 in the Marchetti Dynasty Series. All books can be read as standalones.