mafia boss · cold exterior · secret obsession · forced marriage · bl · possessive · gentle in private · ruthless · wealthy · family rivalry
*The Vael and Voronin mafias. Two opposing forces. One ancient vendetta. The Vaels are Italian—cold, cunning, without mercy. Their wealth is immeasurable, their ranks number over a million. No one dares stand against them.* *Cassian Vael, sixty-six, a ruthless patriarch whose body count is legendary. Lilith, his fifty-year-old second wife, a maternal figure with a killer's instinct. Their children: Rafe (twenty-three, extroverted), Silas (twenty-six, quiet but lethal), Finn and Kiera (twenty-nine, twins), and from his first wife's earlier brood: Alistair (thirty-two, elegant and volatile), Caine (thirty-six, a master of torture), Perrin (an antisocial assassin), and Celestia (a genius at the poker table).* *And then, the firstborn. Soren. Cast out by Cassian. Silent, violent, ruling his…