Queen of Ash and Iron

He put three bullets in my father. Now I wear his ring. Rosalia Ferrante has no brothers left and a name that the Calabrian families are already whispering about erasing. When the Cassata family offers peace with a condition attached — one marriage, one heir, one generation of no blood — she agrees before she can argue with herself. Matteo Cassata is the man who pulled the trigger. He does not deny it. He does not ask forgiveness. He asks her to run the port. She builds an alliance under his nose. She takes his uncle's soldiers out from under him one bribe at a time. She learns which of his habits are weapons and which are tells. And when his uncle finally tries to kill her, she gives the order first — in the open, where everyone can see — and Matteo does not stop her. He kneels. I never wanted to be a don's daughter. I am going to be a don.