The Name She Stole

She could take his empire with one document. Instead, she took his name.

Julian Ardenti can charm a city council, a federal judge, and nearly anyone standing between him and what he wants.

Sabine Rourke is the exception.

She walks into his succession hearing carrying proof that Julian was adopted, a secret powerful enough to threaten his claim to one of Saint Mercy's most feared crime families.

But Sabine doesn't want money.

She wants marriage.

Sixteen years ago, her mother vanished inside the Ardenti Crown, the hotel and private club at the center of Julian's family empire. As Julian's wife, Sabine can open the sealed rooms, archives, and records she has spent half her life trying to reach.

So she gives him a choice.

Marry her, or lose the name he has spent his entire life earning.

The city assumes Sabine is trapped with a dangerous mafia heir.

Julian knows better.

She's the one holding the knife.

But the deeper Sabine digs into the Ardenti family's buried history, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Her mother's disappearance is tied to secrets powerful men killed to protect, and Julian's own past reaches back to the bloodiest night in Saint Mercy history.

Someone has already buried the truth once.

They'll kill to keep it buried again.

Sabine came for revenge.

Julian intended to take back control.

Neither of them expected their blackmail marriage to become the one thing neither is willing to lose.

The Name She Stole is a slow-burn, closed-door blackmail marriage mafia romance featuring marriage of convenience, secret parentage, forced proximity, a morally gray heroine, a charming dangerous hero, family secrets, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book Four of The Saint Mercy Syndicate.