Bride and Bounty

Nadia Ferraro buried her father on a Tuesday. By Friday she was married. Vitale Ruscetti doesn't negotiate. He acquires. Two smuggling routes, one wedding, one wife who has been stealing from him since before they met. He knows. He's known since the third week. What he can't figure out is why he keeps the ledger closed. Nadia has two years of skimmed money, a brother in debt, and a secret growing under her ribs that will get them both killed if her uncle gets to it first. The smart move is to run. The Ruscetti move is to stay and make the marriage load-bearing. When her own family comes for the routes, the child, and her, Vitale has to decide whether the contract is the marriage or the woman inside it. He picks the woman. It costs him the name. A forced marriage, secret baby mafia romance for readers who like their husbands dangerous and their endings earned.