The Wolf in the Court

Giulia Ferraro has run her father's bookshop in Palermo since the stroke that took his voice. She pays the Marcelli family their monthly cut like everyone else on the block, and she has always felt the arrangement was tolerable — until Matteo Marcelli walked into her shop, bought a book he didn't want, and left without meeting her eyes. She knows what he is. The city calls him lupo. She doesn't know that he has been watching her for three years, that he is her fated mate, or that he has been quietly killing anyone who gets near her. When a rival cosca from the mainland makes a play for Marcelli territory, hiding Giulia is no longer enough. Matteo must either claim her publicly or lose her to a war he started. But Giulia has no interest in being hidden or claimed. She walks into the Marcelli compound on her own terms, with the ledger, and lays out what she wants.