Alessia Russo was raised to be an asset, and her father just sold her to the highest bidder. Salvatore Greco is forty-seven, Sicilian, and cold as the marble floors he walks on. He needed an American wife. He got one who reads his books better than his accountants do. Six weeks of separate bedrooms. Business dinners where he doesn't look at her. Then Alessia finds the money his own cousin has been stealing - and decides to hand it to Salvatore in front of the whole family. He doesn't say thank you. He takes her to bed instead, keeps her there for two days, and marries her a second time when she saves his life at the casino opening without flinching. An arranged marriage age gap mafia romance with a heroine who does not need saving and a don who learns to let her fight.

She married him to stay out of a prison barge. He's spent three years keeping her out of one. Sera Voss lives in a walled house on a harbor island where she can see the water and never touch it. Her husband, Captain Aleksander Voss, comes and goes with the tide and never tells her where. She knows every door in the house. She has never used one. When Aleksander's employers order him to hand her over as collateral on a deal gone wrong, he refuses in front of his own crew - and the island becomes a siege. Sera is the one who makes the plan. Across a moonlit harbor in a stolen dinghy, with the house burning behind them, Aleksander finally tells her why he came for her three years ago, and it isn't the reason she assumed. Papers get signed on the far coast. Sera gets her name back. What she does with it is the whole story. A marriage-in-crisis captive romance with a heroine who runs the escape and a captain who finally talks.

Alessia Russo wurde als Besitz erzogen und ihr Vater hat sie an den Hchstbietenden verkauft. Salvatore Greco ist siebenundvierzig, Sizilianer und kalt wie der Marmor, auf dem er geht. Er brauchte eine amerikanische Ehefrau. Bekommen hat er eine, die seine Bücher besser liest als seine Buchhalter. Sechs Wochen getrennte Schlafzimmer. Geschäftsessen, bei denen er sie nicht ansieht. Dann entdeckt Alessia das Geld, das sein eigener Cousin gestohlen hat und beschließt, es Salvatore vor der versammelten Familie zu übergeben. Er sagt nicht danke. Er nimmt sie stattdessen mit ins Bett, behält sie dort zwei Tage und heiratet sie ein zweites Mal, als sie bei der Casino-Erffnung sein Leben rettet, ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken. Eine arrangierte Mafia-Ehe mit Altersunterschied über eine Heldin, die keine Rettung braucht, und einen Don, der lernt, sie kämpfen zu lassen.