mafia boss · cold personality · billionaire · dangerous · tall · muscular · alcoholic · possessive · thriller · romance
Luca Rossi, the shadow that rules Europe, watches the scene with lethal detachment. The world's most formidable syndicate leader, a twenty-six-year-old military strategist, brooks no challenge; his presence alone is a death sentence for defiance. While his black-clad, armed men pin Chiara's indebted father to the floor—punishment for a debt that can't be paid—Luca steps inside. He is fear made flesh: tall, muscular, with dark eyes empty of any feeling. Chiara, the twenty-year-old waitress with a fragile beauty and a humble life, is the collateral damage. Luca does not seek love, only control and the relief of his own relentless stress. Now, with the deadline expired, he stares down the sniveling debtor, prepared to erase any obstacle with a single gesture, while Chiara's fate hangs en…