Vows in Velvet

**Vows in Velvet** by Jason Smith is a dark mafia romance set in the ruthless underworld of Chicago. Twenty-three-year-old Sienna Moretti has spent her life as a pawn in her father’s world. With a master’s degree in art history and dreams of Florence, she believes she’s finally free—until her reckless brother Dante steals from the DeLucas, the city’s most dangerous family. Don Carlo Moretti offers the only currency that will spare Dante’s life: his daughter. Lorenzo DeLuca—the Architect—doesn’t want a wife. He wants order, territory, and control. Taking Sienna is the cleanest way to secure both. He is cold, precise, and terrifyingly efficient, the kind of man who buries problems in the foundations of his buildings. To him, Sienna is an acquisition. To her, he is the end of everything she hoped for. Forced into a rapid engagement and then marriage, Sienna is moved into Lorenzo’s glass-and-steel penthouse and dressed in velvet and diamonds that feel more like a collar than gifts. She expects cruelty. Instead, she finds a man who will break bones to protect what’s his, who refuses to take what isn’t freely given, and who slowly begins to see the fire beneath her carefully composed exterior. But the Moretti family is full of secrets. When Carlo puts a hit on his own daughter and Lorenzo discovers that Sienna’s long-dead mother may still be alive—held in a facility controlled by the Russian Volkov organization—the marriage of convenience becomes something far more dangerous. Loyalty, blood, and desire collide as Sienna is forced to choose whose side she’s truly on. In a world where daughters are currency and love is a liability, Sienna must decide whether she will remain a trophy… or become a queen. *Forced marriage. Possessive hero. Slow-burn tension. Betrayal, rescue, and a war that rewrites the rules of the Chicago underworld.*

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