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Mafia Romance: Holiday Hostage: A Mafia Romance Christmas
Paperback
Series: The Cost of Devotion, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 9 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Noelle Marini has survived by learning how to disappear.
At a glittering holiday event, she is just another catering server, silent, useful, forgettable, until she witnesses a private meeting gone wrong and ends up in the custody of Nico DeLuca, the family enforcer who should have eliminated her on the spot. Instead, he takes her to the DeLuca winter estate, a fortress of old loyalties, dangerous secrets, and people who see her as a problem waiting to be solved.
Noelle knows the rules immediately: stay quiet, stay useful, and do not give anyone a reason to decide she is no longer worth the risk. But the longer she remains inside the estate, the harder it becomes to stay invisible. Nico watches her like a threat he cannot afford to underestimate. His family watches her like a weakness they would rather erase. And in a house where every kindness has a price, even protection can feel like possession.
Nico was trained to be a weapon. Noelle has spent her life surviving by becoming smaller. Neither of them expects the line between captor and protector to fracture, or for the woman who should have been a loose end to become the one person Nico cannot surrender.
As Christmas closes in and the DeLuca family turns its full attention toward the witness under their roof, Noelle and Nico are forced to choose between the system that made them and the impossible thing growing between them. Because in this world, being chosen is more dangerous than violence, and far harder to survive.
Holiday Hostage is a dark mafia romance featuring a winter estate, forced proximity, family tension, a dangerous protector hero, and a heroine who refuses to disappear.
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