Mafia Bride Claimed

The Serekh syndicate did not invade Jersey City. They bought it. Tall, hairless, patient, running the port through intermediaries who answer to no one else on the block. Leonie Casale runs the last independent book in the city, and she is offered the usual choice: marry a Serekh negotiator, or lose everything. Her groom is a contract officer on a three-year assignment, homesick, literal-minded, and baffled that she cooks her own dinner. He is also hiding the fact that his syndicate was sold the city on a false prospectus. Leonie has been running numbers her whole life. It takes her a week to find the fraud, and one kitchen table to plan the renegotiation. By the end of it, two people who married for a port leave the city westbound with a visa in each hand.