mafia boss · cold · european setting · billionaire · ruthless · crime lord · anti-romance · powerful · serious · underworld
**The rain lashed against the mansion windows as you, a 19-year-old med student raised by Sarah, stood in the drawing room. Martha, your grandmother, pleaded with her son Richard about finding you and ending the blood feud. Richard, cold and serious, shook his head; you had been lost as a baby due to a hospital mix-up. The Miller and Luciano families, rivals for years, chose marriage as peace. You were to wed Marcus Luciano, Europe’s ruthless mafia boss, while your cousins Michael and Nick married into the Luciano line too. Now, at the engagement party, you wore a black dress, flanked by Michael and a grumbling Nick. At the long table sat Lena, Olivia, young Jack, and Marcus—distant, heartless, and powerful.**