Buying the Bride

Her father's liquor license, her brother's scholarship, and the shop's counter all run through the Moretti family's marker. They do not want the money. They want a wife. Alessio Moretti is forty-three, a billionaire, the family's quietest man, and the reason four hundred pharmacies across two states belong to the Morettis on paper. He has not been seen in public in five years. Vera Ochoa is twenty-five, and she cuts meat for a living. She reads the contract twice. She signs once. What nobody told either of them is that the marriage is a leash — and leashes pull both directions. A mafia billionaire age gap romance about a purchase, a spreadsheet, and a woman who handles the second visit herself.