She was the price of her father’s debt. He was never supposed to fall in love with her.At twenty-four, Sofia Bellini has spent most of her life sacrificing everything for the people she loves. After losing her mother at seventeen, she became the only real parent her younger brother and sister had ever known.But when her gambling-addicted father accumulates a debt of $680,000 to one of New York’s most powerful Mafia families, Sofia discovers that love and loyalty come at a devastating price.Her freedom.To settle his debt, her father promises her hand in marriage to Alessandro Morello, the thirty-two-year-old heir to the feared Morello crime family.Cold. Powerful. Dangerous.Alessandro has spent his entire life preparing to inherit his father’s empire. Marriage was never part of his plans, especially not to a woman he believes has willingly agreed to their arrangement.But Sofia is nothing like he expected.Behind her quiet beauty is a woman who has survived years of heartbreak, fear and sacrifice. And behind Alessandro’s ruthless reputation is a man who begins to question everything he was raised to believe.As their arranged marriage slowly becomes something neither anticipated, Sofia discovers that the Morello family is hiding secrets far darker than her father’s debts.A missing man.A betrayal buried for six years.And a mysterious connection between her late mother and the Mafia family she is about to marry into.With enemies closing in and the truth threatening to destroy both families, Sofia must decide whether she can trust the man who was supposed to own her future.And Alessandro must choose between the blood that made him and the woman who is changing him.Their marriage was arranged to settle a debt.Their love could cost them everything.In a world where loyalty is everything, love may be the most dangerous betrayal of all.