His Broken Asset

The Marchettis owe the Vescovis more than money. They owe a daughter. Gia is eighteen when she is delivered to Matteo Vescovi's household — dark-haired, unarmed, and utterly unrepentant. He is thirty-nine, the most feared man in the family's northern operations, and he has no intention of being anyone's guardian. He plans to ignore her until the debt is settled. Gia doesn't let him. She burns his correspondence. She sits in on his meetings. She makes herself impossible to look past, and when he finally looks, she finds out what everyone in the family already knew: Matteo Vescovi is not a patient man. He is also, under all of it, not entirely gone. When a rival family demands her as the price of peace, he refuses — and loses everything for it. Gia refuses to let him lose it alone. She walks into the rival's compound before he can stop her, and she comes out with what she went in for.