THE BELLANDIS. An Italian Mafia Captive Romance

The Bellandis built their Chicago dynasty on loyalty, wealth, violence, and control. Behind museum boards, private collections, freight routes, charitable foundations, and old family agreements lies an Italian American criminal empire accustomed to deciding who owns the truth, who controls the territory, who pays the debt, and whose word becomes law. Then four women begin changing the rules. Across four interconnected standalone romances, a don, an underboss, an heiress to institutional power, and a feared consigliere discover that devotion means more than protection or possession. Each couple must turn a bond created by danger, obligation, rivalry, or necessity into something freely chosen.The men remain dangerous. The women keep their power. And every HEA permanently changes the Bellandi world for the couple that comes next.

PRECEDENT

An Italian Mafia Marriage of Convenience Romance (The Bellandis)

Gabriel Marchetti once made a decision he could defend to everyone except Mara Roth.

More than a decade ago, Mara trusted him during her father’s fight to recover the Valenti Archive. Gabriel used what she gave him, shaped the truth, and helped bury a valid claim. Mara built the rest of her career making certain powerful institutions could never...

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COLLATERAL

An Italian Mafia Forced-Proximity Romance (The Bellandis)

Sofia Bellandi knows how to make a crisis disappear. When a hostile acquisition threatens Serra Fine Art Transit, she uses Bellandi money to buy the company time before anyone can stop her.

Matteo Serra has spent his life learning what Bellandi help costs. His family’s old debt made labor, loyalty, and even need feel like property. He’ll accept...

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TERRITORY

An Italian Mafia Enemies-to-Lovers Romance (The Bellandis)

Alessia DeLuca knows how to make powerful men agree to terms they think were their own. What she does not have is a title. When evidence of a stolen Bellandi transport seal leads her to Dante Bellandi, the rival family’s newly appointed underboss, their secret meeting ends in gunfire and two dead men.

The attack leaves both families with a...

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PROVENANCE

An Italian Mafia Forced-Proximity Slow-Burn Romance (The Bellandis)

Lucia Serra came to Chicago to conserve a seventeenth-century painting for the Bellandi Foundation. She didn’t expect to find a flawless forgery, a hidden original, and her dead father’s mark buried in the frame.

Adrian Bellandi knows the moment Lucia sees too much, she becomes a target. To keep her alive, and to stop his father from burying the...

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