KISSED BY DEATH, CLAIMED BY THE MAFIA KING
READING AGE 18+
For three years, Isabella Moretti has been dead to the world.The night her family was slaughtered, she escaped with a new name, a mother's pendant, and one promise: she would find the person who ordered the m******e. Every clue points toward Dante De Luca, Valeria's ruthless mafia king—the man whose family inherited everything after hers fell.Then Isabella infiltrates Dante's engagement party, intending to get close enough to kill him.A gunshot tears through the ballroom before she can pull the trigger.Isabella saves Dante's life, exposing a skill she was never supposed to possess. He recognizes her face from a photograph connected to his father's murder. Instead of killing her, he offers her a marriage contract: become his wife for one year and help him expose the traitor inside his empire—or be hunted by the same people who erased her family.She accepts, planning to destroy him from the inside.But on their wedding night, Dante shows her a photograph of her supposedly dead father, dated three days ago.Now the man she swore to kill may be the only person who can help her find her father. Their attraction grows amid assassination attempts, stolen evidence, and secrets hidden inside the De Luca estate. Yet every answer opens a darker question—and someone in their inner circle is determined to make sure neither bride nor king lives long enough to uncover the truth.In Valeria, love is a weakness, marriage is a weapon, and the dead do not always stay buried.
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Isabella Moretti POV
My father had been dead for seventeen years.
That was what I had believed. That was what Clara had repeated until the story became as familiar as my own name. Matteo Moretti died in an accident. Lucia Moretti died with him. Isabella survived because she was too young to remember.
Now a stranger had called ……
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