THE BRIDE PRICE. Dark Mafia Romance

Ilaria Sarno writes the contracts that keep Chicago’s four criminal houses from war. She is the sitting broker, the keeper of the Ledger, and the one woman every house is forbidden to claim. Until an old rule puts her own name on the page.

Maksim Sorokin arrives at the Table to settle a blood price and invokes living surety: ninety days of...

Maeve Kearney buried her husband eight weeks ago. She has no intention of handing his death over to the family that controls the routes, gates, and crews of Kearney Port.

As a maritime insurance investigator and an independent claimant, Maeve holds something Ronan Kearney cannot take from her: authority over Cian’s personal claim. Ronan, Cian’s...

At fourteen, Ana Caterina Bellandi was entered into a future-marriage schedule. At twenty-two, she discovers the document that priced her is hiding something far more dangerous: a master index tied to eighteen people living under protected identities.

Luka Mihajlo Vuković is the man named beside her. Thirty-nine, ruthless, and head of the Vuković...

Attorney Nora Kearney has built her career around one rule: a capable adult gets to choose, even when the safer choice is ugly.

So when a protected client’s supposedly secure challenge is breached and Nora realizes the approved protection network may be compromised, she does the unforgivable thing. She takes the woman and disappears.

Gabriel Vale...

Katarina Vuković follows money until every hidden obligation has a name.

Her newest audit uncovers the Founding Settlement, a decades-old Bellandi-Vuković marriage bargain still buried beneath property, trusts, political appointments, and businesses across Chicago. The marriage authority is dead. The money it moved is not.

Lorenzo Bellandi has...