She stripped to survive. He killed to escape. “Velvet” Russo has one rule: never fall in love, especially with a man who smells like danger. But when Luca Romano, the mafia’s most wanted lieutenant, walks into her club with a bullet wound and a haunted past, her rule shatters.Velvet is no damsel. She knows the price of touching a devil, especially one with blood on his hands. But Luca offers something no one else ever has: truth, obsession, and a way out.Their love is electric, toxic, and forbidden. As mafia wars erupt and buried secrets rise, Velvet finds herself caught between the man she could die for... and the family he once destroyed.In a city where loyalty means blood and betrayal means death, love might be the most dangerous crime of all.