Cruel Ruin

Bianca Rinaldi was handed to Matteo Cavalcante to end a war. She was supposed to be a transaction. A signature. A wife he'd bury and forget like the two before her. She had other plans. Within four months she learned the family books, cultivated the consigliere, and quietly disentangled her father's debts from the marriage contract Matteo had signed without reading carefully enough. Matteo is forty-nine, cold since his second wife was murdered, and incapable of looking away from the twenty-three-year-old who sits at the end of his own table and never flinches at anything. When a prosecutor with a grudge comes for both families, Bianca brokers the deal without asking his permission. He is furious. He is, for the first time in fifteen years, afraid. She moves out. He follows. *A dark, age-gap mafia arranged marriage romance for readers who like their wives in charge and their dons on a leash.*