Power is inherited through blood-but sometimes, it's carried in silence.
When the unassailable Sicilian don Malani Raymond realizes his empire is vulnerable without an heir, he makes a decision as ruthless as it is precise: a secret contract marriage to a woman who will bear his child and disappear. No love. No permanence. No weakness. Just survival.
Veronica Hart never intended to belong to a criminal world. Buried under crushing debt and facing the loss of her mother, she agrees to become Malani's surrogate wife believing the arrangement will cost her only her body. What she doesn't anticipate is the man himself-cold, controlled, and terrifyingly restrained-or how quickly his world begins to close around her.
As rival syndicates circle, bullets tear through vineyards, and betrayal seeps from within Malani's inner circle, the line between transaction and devotion fractures. Veronica evolves from collateral to contender, overhearing council meetings, outmaneuvering enemies with intellect rather than force, and standing unflinching when gunfire erupts and Malani falls protecting her.
Their intimacy grows not in promises, but in choices-late-night confessions, shared strategy sessions, and a night of forbidden closeness that shatters every rule they set to survive. When a buried succession clause reveals Veronica holds the future of the empire in her hands, she must decide whether to flee with her freedom... or claim a throne no one intended her to touch.
In a final reckoning of law, blood, and power, Malani learns that love is not a weakness-but the most dangerous risk he's ever chosen.
Surrogate Wife of the Mafia is a dark, slow-burn romance packed with betrayal, high-stakes power plays, and devastating intimacy-perfect for readers who crave intelligent mafia romance where love is earned, not claimed.
Step into the contract.
Claim the power.
And discover what endures when survival becomes devotion.
