The Ruthless Capo

Tommaso Verdi has run the Verdi family for six years without losing a negotiation, and without telling anyone outside the family that the Verdis have been wolves since 1889. Their real business is land: twelve hundred acres under the city that no human record admits exists. When the family's oldest ally demands the acreage in exchange for a treaty, Tommaso needs a legal instrument that keeps the land human on paper and wolf in fact. The only lawyer who can draft it is Bianca Salucci, who is brilliant, who is human, and whose father Tommaso had killed. He hires her at gunpoint. She stays for four months. She proves the ally's claim is a forgery, and Tommaso expels the ally from the family council without a single shot fired. Then Bianca tells him what she has figured out about the Verdi family, and Tommaso has to decide whether to let her live with the truth. A werewolf shifter mafia romance about paper, acreage, and a man who has never lost.