Stolen by a Heartless Kin
Blurb Violet Anderson's life is painted in shades of gray—waiting tables at a dingy Brooklyn diner by day, sketching strangers in Central Park by night, trying to save enough for art....
Blurb Violet Anderson's life is painted in shades of gray—waiting tables at a dingy Brooklyn diner by day, sketching strangers in Central Park by night, trying to save enough for art school while her mother's medical bills drain every paycheck. She's invisible to the world, and that's exactly how she survives. Until the night Vincenzo Mercanti walks into her diner. He doesn't order food. He doesn't speak. He just watches her with eyes like black ice, and when he leaves, Violet feels the ghost of his gaze for hours. She tells herself it meant nothing. That men like him—tailored suits, dangerous stillness, the kind of presence that makes hardened men step aside—don't notice girls like her. She's wrong. Three days later, Violet wakes in a mansion she doesn't recognize, wearing clothes she didn't choose, with a man she's never met telling her she'll never leave. Vincenzo doesn't explain why he took her. He doesn't apologize. He simply states facts: she belongs to him now. Her old life is over. Resistance is pointless. But Violet isn't the fragile thing he assumes. Beneath her soft exterior is a survivor who's been fighting her whole life, and she'll be damned if she breaks for a monster in an expensive suit—no matter how his touch ignites something she doesn't want to name, no matter how his rare smiles feel like stolen sunlight, no matter how the beast reveals glimpses of a man who might be more broken than she is. Vincenzo Mercanti built an empire on fear. He doesn't do love. He doesn't do mercy. But the girl he stole to settle a score he won't name has become the one thing his power can't control, and the obsession that made him take her might be the only thing that can destroy them both. In a world where love is weakness and weakness gets you killed, can two people born into different hells forge something that doesn't burn them alive? Or will the chains he wrapped around her heart be the ones that drag them both into darkness? A dark mafia romance about obsession, survival, and the thin line between captivity and choice.