Wretched Choices

She ran from the mafia once.
Now a don wants to make her his wife.

Isabella

I ran to survive.
Changed my name.
Built a new life far from the blood and lies of the mafia.
But the past doesn't stay buried; especially when you're born into it.
When an investigation drags me back into the world I escaped, I make a reckless choice: I go after the most dangerous man of all.
Salvatore Catalano.
Don of La Cosa Nostra.
I never expected him to catch me.
I never expected him to want me.
Now I'm trapped between two evils;
The father who would destroy me...
Or the man who offers protection at an unforgivable price.
Marriage.

Salvatore
I was never supposed to want her.
She was a liability. A problem. A weakness.
But once I learn who she really is, she becomes the perfect solution.
A marriage to Isabella could end a war before it begins.
It would secure my power.
Silence my enemies.
And put her exactly where I want her; at my side.
I give her one choice:
Say I do...
Or be sent back to a punishment I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
She thinks marrying me will save her.
What she doesn't understand is this;
Once she's mine, there's no escape. Not from the war.
And not from me.

Wretched Choices is book one in a spicy mafia romance duet featuring a forced marriage, a powerful age-gap don, and a heroine who was never meant to survive loving him.
Ends on a cliffhanger.
This story contains dark themes, forced proximity, and a morally gray, possessive hero.