Marked by the Don

TITLE- Seraphina: The Don's Obsession GENRE- Romance, Mafia Romance, Dark Romance TROPES- Divorce, Secret Baby, Forced Proximity, Second Chance THEMES- Enemies to Lover, Revenge, Betrayal, Obsession SETTINGS- United States of America; Contemporary MAIN CHARACTERS SERAPHINA VALE (24 YEARS) The Female Lead. A successful and compassionate strategist and negotiator. She was raised by her older brother, Charles, a police officer, after her father's disappearance. Though, she is determined to acquire wealth, she still has her morals. PERSONALITY: Fearless Defiance: Unlike others who tremble before Alexander, Seraphina looks him in the eye and calls him a coward. She refuses to let him break her spirit. The Healer's Instinct: Even when she hates Alexander, she cannot ignore his wounds. Her nature forces her to see the human being inside the monster. Emotional Intelligence: She is the only one who realizes that Alexander’s violence is a mask for his deep-seated childhood trauma. Initial Goal: To escape and put Alexander in jail. Final Goal:To save Alexander's soul from the darkness. ALEXANDER KNIGHT (27 YEARS) Alexander is a man who has suppressed his soul to become the lethal weapon of his family. He was once a sensitive boy who loved kites and his father, his life shattered at age 12 when he witnessed his father's murder. His uncle, Nathaniel, groomed him to be a killer to "protect" the family. He believes he is "dead inside" and that darkness is his only home. Personality: Emotional Wall: He rarely speaks more than necessary and uses silence as a weapon. He falls in love with Seraphina. Hyper-Protective: Once he claims something or someone as his, he will kill or die to protect it. His love is possessive and obsessive. Self-Hatred: He believes he is a monster who doesn't deserve happiness, which is why he initially treats Seraphina with coldness, he’s trying to protect her from himself. Initial Goal: To protect Seraphina from her father's killer. Final Goal: To stop his family's ruthlessness. BLURB Three years ago, she vanished with his pregnancy but he came to reclaim her on the day of her engagement to another man Seraphina Vale's plan was to marry Alexander Knight, the quietest billionaire in the room, secure assets and get out before things get complicated. She married him, faked an affair, walked away with a clean divorce and hid the pregnancy in a city halfway across the world thinking she was free. She thought she had played her cards perfectly. But when Alexander walked into the venue of her engagement a year later. Even his new fiance kept his head bowed as he dared not defy the man that had come to take his spouse. That was when she realized it... Alexander Knight was not just a billionaire, he was the Don of a global criminal syndicate and she was the only person he had ever called his own. And that was not all, Alexander was the mastermind behind her father's disappearance years ago. PLOT OUTLINE EXPOSITION Seraphina Vale, a strategist who controls powerful men by exploiting their flaws, attends a billionaire gala seeking her next target. She notices Alexander Knight, a CEO with no visible ego or leverage. Their brief exchange becomes a calculated duel and Alexander instantly recognizes her true nature. He offers her a lucrative role managing global business and political risk. Believing she can infiltrate and eventually control him, Seraphina accepts not knowing she has chosen the wrong prey. INCITING INCIDENT Seraphina’s advisory role pulls her into Alexander’s private orbit. Publicly, she is a tool, privately, he observes her with cold intensity. Mistaking his emotional emptiness for loneliness, she proposes marriage to gain full access. Alexander agrees without hesitation, producing prepared documents. Their marriage is emotionless and ruled by strict boundaries. When Alexander declares she is now protected and owned, he reveals he married her because she carries darkne

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