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Zero Stars: A Dark Forced Proximity Mafia Romance
Paperback
Series: Close Proximity
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 11 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She gave his restaurant one star. He gave her nowhere to run.
Ella Kaminski has hated Nico Ferraro since the day he carried a dead pig into the empty storefront next to her antique shop.
His new restaurant is loud. His customers block the sidewalk. His family is suspicious. And Ella is certain Il Vero is a mafia front.
Worst of all, Nico is the most beautiful man she has ever seen-and he appears not to notice her at all.
So she makes herself impossible to ignore.
One-star reviews. Anonymous inspections. A porcelain mafia tableau in her window. Twelve flaming bags left on his back step.
Nico notices everything.
When he summons Ella to Il Vero after closing, she expects threats. Instead, he serves her the best meal of her life. Then a brick crashes through the front window, and Nico pulls her into the restaurant's hidden safe room.
The phone is dead. The steel door will not open until morning. And the man Ella has spent four months provoking is finally close enough to tell her exactly how closely he has been watching.
She gave him zero stars.
By morning, Nico intends to make her revise the review.
Zero Stars is a standalone, high-heat mafia romance featuring enemies-to-lovers obsession, a curvy heroine, a possessive chef, forced proximity, spanking, and one extremely unconventional neighborhood feud.
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