REBORN TO MARRY MY MAFIA ENEMY
Seraphina Kade spent six years loving a man who was never real. On the night her father dies and her family's empire is stolen out from under her, she learns the truth: her fiancé Julian orchestrated it all, her own uncle Malcolm helped him, and the marriage she trusted was just a means to an end. When she refuses to sign away everything she has left, they kill her for it.
She wakes up three years in the past, in her own bed, with every memory of her death intact.
This time, she won't be naive. She won't trust Julian. And she won't wait to be saved.
Instead, she turns to the one man she once feared more than anyone: Damon Voss, heir to the city's most dangerous crime family, and the only person who tried to save her the night she died. Her plan is as bold as it is dangerous. Marry her family's greatest enemy, and use his power to protect what's hers before her past can repeat itself.
But Damon doesn't trust easily, and the Seraphina standing in front of him isn't the woman he remembers. She knows too much. She's changed too much. And he intends to find out why.
As their strategic marriage pulls them into forced proximity, mafia politics, and a conspiracy that runs deeper than either of them realizes, Seraphina must fight to outsmart the people who destroyed her once already, all while falling for the one man she never expected to trust.
This time, she intends to win. And she doesn't intend to do it alone.
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Chapter: Room 412Thomas Kade had planned a great many things in his life, a fleet's worth of voyages, three decades of quarterly accounts, one very large wedding, and he could not remember being as nervous about any of them as he was about a single night in a hotel."You are doing it again," said his wife, from the passenger seat."Doing what?""Drumming. On the wheel. You have done it since the second traffic light." She turned in her seat, in her good blue coat, with her handbag on her knee and an expression of tender, unhurried suspicion. "Thomas. We have been married forty seven years. I know the sound of a man who has arranged something. You told me we were going to dinner.""We are going to dinner.""At a restaurant that happens to be at the other end of the city, in a direction I have not been in a very long time, on the evening of our anniversary, with a small suitcase I did not pack in the boot of the car.""I packed it," said Thomas. "Sera helped.""Sera is part of this.""Sera is a co consp
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Chapter: A Blank PageArthur Harrington had drafted contracts for three generations of a family that did not usually put things in writing, and in forty six years of practice he had never once been unable to find the first sentence.He was unable now.He sat at the kitchen table of his small house on Carrow Street at six on a Saturday morning in July, in his dressing gown, with a cup of tea going cold at his elbow and a single sheet of cream paper in front of him, and looked at the blank space beneath the word Dear. It was the second Saturday of the month. In four hours he would walk across the river with a chessboard under his arm and a white paper bag from the bakery on Linden Row, and he would say what he had come to say. He had known it since March. And at six in the morning, with the birds just waking in the pear tree, he could not even begin the letter that was meant to be the safer way."You are a coward, Arthur," he said aloud, to the empty kitchen.It was true, and it was not new. He had been a co
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Chapter: Reasonable SuspicionRuth Aldane had taught thirty years of eight year olds, and she knew the exact sound of a child about to do something she would regret, and it was the sound her daughter's car made turning into the drive at half past four on Sunday afternoon.She stood at the kitchen window with a wooden spoon in one hand and watched Claire climb out. She was thirty eight, tall like her father, with his dark straight eyebrows and his way of setting her jaw before a difficult conversation. She was carrying a casserole dish in both hands, which was how Ruth knew that it was going to be a difficult conversation."Mother," said Claire, in the doorway, with the dish held out like a shield. "I thought I would surprise you.""You have.""I made shepherd's pie.""I have a roast in the oven for four people. One of them is you, apparently." Ruth took the dish, and kissed her cheek, and felt, beneath the fond brisk familiarity of it, the stiffness in her daughter's shoulders. "He is arriving at five. I take it y
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Chapter: The SimulatorThe Maritime Pilotage Academy of Rotterdam stood at the end of a long brick quay, a low, handsome, weather beaten building with a copper roof gone green and a flag that snapped in the wind off the North Sea, and Mara Lindqvist, stepping down from the taxi with a small bag over her shoulder, felt her heart do something it had not done since she was nineteen.It was a Thursday morning in late June. They had taken the seven o'clock train, and Julian had slept against the window with his better coat folded neatly over his knees while she watched the flat green country slide by and not said a single word. Now she stood on the cobbles in the sunlight, looking up at the great arched doors, and found that she was not afraid at all."It is smaller than I expected," said Julian, beside her, tugging at his cuffs."It is exactly the size it should be.""I meant that as a compliment.""I know you did." She slipped her hand into his. "You are doing wonderfully. You have not said a single noble thin
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Chapter: StayJulian Voss found out what he wanted at two in the morning, standing at the kitchen counter in his socks, holding a glass of water he had no intention of drinking.He wanted her to stay.It was not a complicated thought. It had the plain, heavy simplicity of a stone dropped into a well, and he stood there letting it settle, hating himself a little. He had said thank you at the gate in April. He had said let us find out together on the pier, with a lamp in his hand. He had spent two months being exactly the man he thought he was supposed to be, patient and generous and entirely unselfish, and under all of it, silent as a keel, the same wish had been running.Stay. Please. Stay.He put the glass down. It was ridiculous. A woman had been offered a good job."You are being an idiot," he told the dark kitchen, and went to find his shoes.Damon was at the terminal when he arrived, at a quarter past six, standing alone at the end of the long pier with a cup of coffee. It was a pale, mild Jun
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Chapter: How People StayThe assignment was called Family Traditions, and Ms. Abara, who taught the third grade at Marlow Street School and had been teaching it for eleven years, expected nine pages with illustrations and a short oral presentation.Grace Voss intended to deliver considerably more."I have a hypothesis," she announced, at the kitchen table on a Sunday evening in early June, with a new notebook open in front of her and a sharpened pencil behind each ear. "A hypothesis is a guess that you test. Mine is that families do not have traditions. They have rules that nobody wrote down. I am going to find out what they are."She turned a page and wrote, in neat block letters, HOW PEOPLE STAY, and underlined it twice. "I am going to interview everybody who stayed," said Grace, with great seriousness, "and also the ones who had to learn."Damon, who had been pretending to read a shipping report and had not turned the page in ten minutes, put it down. "Might we be interviewed?""Last," said Grace. "You are
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Destined to Love the Twin Brothers
Destined to Love the Twin Brothers follows Wren Casey, a guarded young architect who restores furniture on the side, as she’s drawn into the lives of identical twin brothers Declan and Rory Ashworth. Declan is warm, confident, and immediate; Rory is quiet, observant, and slow to reveal himself. A business partnership between Wren’s firm and the family’s woodworking company keeps her close to both, and what begins as professional collaboration becomes two real, distinct romantic connections she cannot rank against each other.
Wren initially assumes she must eventually choose. Her honesty forces Declan and Rory into the first truly candid conversation of their adult lives, exposing an old imbalance between them, one brother always stepping forward, the other always stepping back. Rather than a rivalry with a winner, their crisis becomes a question neither has ever had to ask: can they both love her without losing each other?
The middle of the story rejects the idea that love must be divided to be real. Through repeated honest conversations, handled jealousy, and family resistance from both sides that gradually softens into acceptance, the three of them build something none of them were raised to believe was possible. Every strain, external pressure, and doubt exists to test whether that honesty can hold, not to manufacture a winner.
The book ends not with a single choice but a shared one: Declan and Rory each tell her plainly what she means to them, and she answers both, on her own terms. The closing image is deliberately ordinary, an evening years later, showing a love still chosen daily by all three people who built it.
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Chapter: Just the Three of UsThe lake house trip ended, eventually, the extended family dispersing back to their respective homes, and Wren found the house on Miller Street unusually quiet in the days that followed, the particular, bittersweet adjustment of returning to ordinary life after a week of full, joyful chaos."I miss the noise," Declan admitted, one evening, the three of them sitting at a dinner table considerably emptier than the long, crowded tables of the past week."I do too," Rory said. "Though I also don't mind this, honestly. Quiet, just the three of us, the way it used to be before any of the children came along."Wren considered that, something thoughtful settling over her. "We don't get this very often anymore, do we. Just us, without grandchildren or workshop commitments or family emergencies pulling our attention.""We should change that," Declan said. "Deliberately, the way we changed it years ago, with the individual date nights."They began, gradually, building in more protected time, not
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Chapter: The Family TripThe idea for a full family vacation began, as most significant family decisions did, with Eleanor the elder's absence weighing on all of them, Marcus mentioning, almost offhandedly, that she'd always wanted to take the whole family somewhere together, all generations at once, and had never quite managed it before she passed."We should do it," Wren said, once Marcus had shared the thought. "For her, in a way. But also for us. I don't think we've ever actually had everyone together, away from ordinary routine, since the kids were small."They spent months organizing it, coordinating schedules across Junie's family, Theo and Mia's, Marcus's own increasingly active social calendar, and Carol's continued, hard won independence, until finally, a full week at a rented lake house, large enough to hold the whole sprawling, three generation family, became reality.They arrived in stages, Junie's family first, young Eleanor immediately racing toward the water with her father close behind, baby
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Chapter: The Public CommissionThe city council's request arrived through an unexpected channel, a former client now serving on the local arts commission, reaching out to ask whether Ashworth & Sons might be interested in creating a permanent public installation for the newly renovated town square."They want something that represents the community," Theo explained, reviewing the proposal with his parents and Declan. "Local history, local craftsmanship. They specifically mentioned our family's story as part of what inspired the request.""That's a significant undertaking," Rory said, studying the proposal's scope. "Public art is a different discipline from furniture, even restoration work. We'd need to think carefully about materials, weatherproofing, scale.""I think we should do it," Declan said, already excited by the prospect. "Think about what this could mean, honestly. A permanent piece, representing this family's actual story, right in the heart of town."They spent the following weeks in careful deliberatio
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Chapter: The Workshop, StillThe manuscript finished, finally, on an ordinary spring morning, and Wren found herself standing alone in the original workshop, the same space where this entire extraordinary story had first begun, holding the completed pages carefully in her hands.She'd come alone deliberately, wanting a quiet moment before sharing the finished work with the rest of the family, and stood now in the exact spot where she'd first unveiled the Whitfield sideboard, decades earlier, a terrified young woman absolutely determined to prove her craftsmanship mattered.The workshop had changed over the years, newer equipment alongside the old, Theo's careful additions layered over Rory's original tools, but the light still came down through the same skylights, the same particular quality of afternoon sun that had first illuminated two identical, startled faces all those years ago.Rory found her there a while later, drawn by instinct more than any message, and stood quietly in the doorway for a moment, watchi
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Chapter: Looking BackThe idea came to Wren gradually, over several quiet weeks following their return from Junie's, a desire to properly document the whole, sprawling story of their family, not just for the grandchildren's eventual understanding, but for herself, a chance to look back clearly at everything they'd built."I want to write it down," she told Rory and Declan, one evening, the three of them settled in the living room. "Not a formal memoir, necessarily. Just, our story, properly told, from the very beginning, for the grandchildren to have someday.""I think that's a beautiful idea," Rory said. "I'd like to help, if you want it. I think there are pieces of the early days I remember more clearly than you might.""I want to help too," Declan added. "Though I reserve the right to make myself sound considerably more charming than I probably was."They spent the following weeks gathering material, old photographs pulled from boxes long untouched, the original workshop ledger from the Whitfield commis
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Chapter: Second Time AroundJunie's announcement of her second pregnancy arrived with considerably less fanfare than her first, a simple phone call one Sunday afternoon, though the joy underneath her casual delivery was unmistakable."We're expecting again," she said, once the initial small talk had concluded. "Due in the winter this time. Eleanor's going to be a big sister."The family's response carried the same warm delight as before, though tempered now by the easier confidence of people who had already weathered one pregnancy's uncertainties and emerged, successfully, with a thriving granddaughter already toddling around their lives."How's she taking the news?" Wren asked, curious about her three year old granddaughter's reaction to impending siblinghood."Mixed feelings, honestly," Junie said, laughing. "She likes the idea of a baby in theory. She's less thrilled about sharing attention in practice. We're working on it."The months that followed passed more smoothly than the first pregnancy had, Junie's f
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