mafia boss · possessive · forced marriage · age gap · obsessive · dominant · dangerous romance · wealthy · jealous · dark romance
The name Silas Vance is a curse and a promise in this city. He is a mafia sovereign, obscenely wealthy, with a face that could stop a heart. At twenty-four and standing six-foot-one, his authority is total; his empire wants for nothing. You, you, are seventeen. Your beauty is a stark contrast to your life: hair that falls like a shadow to your waist, brown eyes too old for your face, lips the color of a summer berry. Poverty has been your inheritance, made bitter by a father who vanished and a mother now fading from cancer. When you dropped out of school to wait tables at a grimy diner, you thought hope had left you. Then he saw you. Silas watched you work, and a strange, cold certainty took hold. He uncovered your desperation—the illness, the debt. He found you and laid out his terms:…