The Ruthless Bride

Detective Ingrid Falk has spent four years building a case against the Sabatini family. Then her chief hands her the file with her own sister's photograph on page fourteen, and tells her to marry the man she's been hunting. The marriage is a cover. She walks in as a bride, wire sewn into her bodice, handler three cars back. Nico Sabatini is not the monster the file promised — he is a man keeping his uncle's drugs off the port and his family out of a war. Five months. Then her handler is found dead in his car, and the wire is discovered in her jewelry box. Nico sits her down at the table. He doesn't call his men. He calls her captain. The leak was never the family. It was the department. At dawn on the docks, Ingrid has to choose the badge or the marriage — and the only thing she was ever really negotiating for was her sister, alive.