Zia Romano never asked to be a mafia bride. But when the powerful Don Giovanni calls in a debt owed by her late father, she finds herself walking down the aisle—into the arms of Lucien Alessandro Saint, Sicily’s coldest and most feared mafia heir. As the daughter of Don Giovanni’s loyal driver, Zia knew hardship and sacrifice. But nothing could prepare her for the cold reality of becoming a Saint—a family bound by blood oaths, ruled by loyalty, and steeped in betrayal. Thrust into a world she was never born into, Zia must navigate the sharp edges of power, secrets, and a marriage that feels more like a sentence than salvation. Lucien doesn’t want a wife. Especially not one chosen for him. Ruthless, calculating, and haunted by a legacy soaked in violence, he sees love as weakness—and Zia as just another pawn in a game he never agreed to play. But Zia isn’t the obedient doll he expected. Raised outside the mafia’s inner circle, she walks the line between gratitude and quiet defiance. And when her presence begins to chip away at Lucien’s icy exterior, old walls crack, long-buried truths rise—and desire threatens to become something far more dangerous. In the underworld, marriage is just another deal. But what happens when the girl meant to be his obligation becomes the only thing he can’t afford to lose?