They handed him over as the price of peace. He was supposed to be owned. He had other plans.Luca Rossi has been traded his whole life. The last son of a broken crime family, raised to be a bargaining chip, sold to end other men's wars. So when the four houses that run the city tear each other apart over his dead father's territory, and the only peace anyone can broker is to bind the last Rossi into the coalition by blood-oath and own him in common, Luca does not beg. He walks in and starts counting their money.
Because Luca knows what none of them do. His father did not hand him over as a price. He buried something, and it makes Luca not the coalition's hostage but the key to it.
The man they oath him to first is Matteo Bianchi, the coldest Don in the city, a man who has never once wanted a thing he could not command.
Matteo took the top by making himself a man who feels nothing that can be used against him. Then a mouthy, dangerous hostage kneels on his floor like he is taking a seat at a card table, refuses to be afraid, and will not be owned, and for the first time in ten years the Don wants something he cannot order, cannot buy, and cannot break. He can only ask.
And an oath sworn in blood is the one law in this world no crown can override, because a man freely chosen cannot be traded away. It is the truth Don Vittorio has killed a generation of men to bury. A man who binds by choice is the one thing that can break the old king's hold. And a man who can bind one man can bind more.
Owned is Book One of BOUND IN BLOOD, a dark, high-heat MM why-choose mafia romance. Book One is a complete love story for its central couple, with a guaranteed happily ever after and no romantic cliffhanger. It is also the opening of a why-choose series: book by book the circle around Luca grows, and more than one dangerous man will choose to be chosen. Come for a closed central couple; stay for the circle the series builds around him. No cheating, no one left behind, HEA guaranteed by series' end.
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- A why-choose MM romance where he never has to pick and no one gets left behind
- Dark mafia, morally-gray crime lords, and a Don who falls first and falls hard
- A captive who flips the power, reads every man like a ledger, and chooses every bond out loud
- Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, and a blood-oath no crown can break
- Slow burn that seals into scorching, explicit and written to land for men
- Found family, a city-wide war, and a buried truth that could unmake a king
The oath is sworn in blood. One-click Owned and watch him take the whole city on his own terms.
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