He took three bullets for me. I gave him a kidney and my whole life to save him.Alessio De Luca is the most feared Don in Sicily. Cold. Tattooed. Untouchable. He never believed in love — until Lina.Lina Moretti was just a waitress with no family and no future. Until the night she spilled wine on the mafia boss and he decided she was his. He loved her obsessively. He protected her like she was the only light in his dark world.They were happy. Until the night of the shootout.On their anniversary, a rival clan ambushed them. Alessio shielded Lina with his own body and took three bullets to his abdomen. He survived — but both his kidneys were destroyed.The doctor said: "14 days to find a donor, or he dies."His entire famiglia was tested. No match. His enemies were celebrating his death.Only one person matched 100%.Me.But during my pre-donation test, the doctor grabbed my hand and whispered, "Lina, you're 6 weeks pregnant. If you donate a kidney now, you could lose the baby. You could die."I looked at Alessio dying on the bed and at the tiny life growing inside me — his life.And I said, "Take it. Save him first."I saved him. I gave him my kidney while carrying his child, and I made the hospital swear to never tell him it was me.Because that same night, his Consigliere told me the truth: "If you stay, the Bratva will kill him because they think you made him weak. If you love him, leave him. Forever."So I did the most painful thing. I woke up from surgery with one kidney, bleeding and broken, left a cruel breakup letter on his pillow that said "I don't love you anymore," and vanished to another city to raise his secret child alone.He thinks I betrayed him when he was dying for me.He has no idea his heart beats because of my kidney. He has no idea his son has his grey eyes and his tattooed hands.Two years later, I'm in Palermo with a 2-year-old boy named Luca who asks me every day where his Papa is.And Alessio has just walked into my cafe — more handsome, more tattooed, more ruthless than ever — and he thinks my son belongs to another man.Will he ever know I gave him life twice?

At 34, Tessa Lane has $412 in her bank account, a 7-year-old son who asks too many questions, and an inheritance she never wanted.The Starlight Hotel — a 12-room, pink-neon, 1950s hotel on Route 66, Arizona. Her estranged father left it to her. It's $83,000 in debt, the air conditioning doesn't work, and it has four permanent residents who refuse to leave.The worst one lives in Room 9.Jonah Cole, 38, is the hotel's handyman. Ex-con. Six-foot-three. Bearded. Grumpy as hell. He doesn't smile, he doesn't talk, and according to the paperwork, her father promised him the hotel would be his.Now Tessa owns his home. And he owns the only working toilet.She needs to sell the Starlight to pay for her son Milo's asthma treatments and start over. He needs her to fail so he can keep his parole address and keep the roof over his head.But when a brutal dust storm traps them inside the hotel for three days — no power, no phone service, and only one working bed — the lines start to blur.He fixes Milo's broken rocket ship. She learns why he went to prison — he took the fall for his brother. He learns why she's really so scared to stay — because for the first time since becoming a single mother, she wants to.A grumpy boss who lives in Room 9 and fixes everything but himself.A single mother who bought a hotel she can't afford and a man she wasn't supposed to want.The Starlight was supposed to be for sale. Now she's not sure she wants to leave.

On the night of her anniversary, Elena is dumped - in public - by her boyfriend of 3 years for her own best friend.Heartbroken and humiliated, she drowns her tears in a bar she should never have entered.That's where she meets him.Lorenzo De Luca. The most feared Mafia Don in the city. Ruthless. Filthy rich. Dangerously handsome. And he has been watching her."You cried over a boy who didn't know your worth. Let me show you how a real man claims his woman."One night. That's all it was supposed to be. A revenge to make her ex jealous.But Lorenzo doesn't do one nights. When he claims something, he keeps it forever.Now her ex wants her back when he sees her on the arm of a Don. But it's too late. She's his. And Lorenzo will burn the whole city down before he lets anyone take her from him.He was the wrong man to run to.Now he's the only man she can't run from.

Elena Rossi's fashion company is 24 hours from bankruptcy — until Alessandro De Luca, the coldest CEO in Manhattan, offers to buy it.One condition: She becomes his. Wife. For one year. In his penthouse, in his bed, on his arm.Elena says no. She has a fiancé, a life.Then Alessandro shows her the video — her fiancé selling her company secrets to his rival."Now you have no company, no fiancé. You have me."Elena signs.What she doesn't know: Alessandro isn't just a CEO. He's the heir to De Luca Mafia, and he has waited 7 years to get the girl who ruined his brother's life. This marriage isn't business. It's revenge. Until the night she cries in his shower and he realizes he doesn't want revenge anymore — he wants to own every tear, every moan, every breath she takes.And Alessandro De Luca never shares what he owns.