The Capo's Untouched Wife

Chiara Lombardi was promised to the Marchetti family when she was six and married to Bran Marchetti within a week of her father's collapse. She moves into his South Philadelphia house expecting every cliché of the arrangement and finds none of them. He sleeps down the hall. He doesn't touch her. He has been paying off her father's debts in handwriting she recognizes from the ledgers. Six weeks into the marriage, she opens the safe and finds her own name on a contract that made her a payment, not a bride — and a second signature, Bran's, refusing to collect. When a rival family tries to take her as leverage, he drives her to a safehouse and finally tells the truth. She was raised to be a contract. She's about to become a person who signs for herself.