Mafia's Dark Vow

Blurb Lola Moretti thought she understood her family's world. Growing up as the daughter of a high-ranking mafia consigliere, she learned to keep secrets, stay silent, and never ask questions. But on the night of her eighteenth birthday, her father delivers a truth that shatters everything: she was promised at birth to Dominiko Salvatore, the most feared man in New York's underworld. Dominiko is not just ruthless—he's legendary. As underboss to the aging Don Salvatore, he's spent fifteen years building an empire of blood and loyalty, waiting for the day he'll claim both the throne and the bride his dying father arranged for him decades ago. To Dominiko, Lola is not a person—she's a contract, a merger of power between two families, a debt finally come due. Thrust into a world where obedience means survival and love is the deadliest weakness, Lola discovers an ancient manuscript hidden in Dominiko's estate: The Edicts of Omertà, written by Caterina Salvatore, the only wife of a don who lived to old age. Within its pages are eleven rules that have kept mafia wives alive for generations. Rules like: Never ask about his business. Never show fear to his enemies. Never love him more than you love yourself. But Dominiko doesn't want a wife who follows rules. He wants one who understands the game. As Lola learns to navigate the razor's edge between submission and strategy, she begins to see cracks in Dominiko's armor—the scars he hides, the burdens he carries, the enemies circling closer. When a rival family targets her as Dominiko's greatest vulnerability, Lola must decide: follow the rules that have protected mafia wives for centuries, or break every single one to protect the man she swore she'd never love. In a world where loyalty is blood and betrayal is death, some rules are meant to be broken. Others will break you first.

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