Novel Web Mafia & Cerita Love after Marriage Contemporary

"You'll be dead within a year," her uncle said, signing her life away with a stroke of his pen. "But at least you'll finally be useful." Ivy Rowan had always been invisible. Starved, beaten, and silenced by the family that stole her inheritance. When her uncle's debts catch up to him, she becomes the payment. He sold her to Dorian Vale, the billionaire mafia lord cursed to bury every woman he marries. Twelve brides. Twelve graves. All within a year. Dorian doesn't expect his thirteenth bride to last any longer. She's fragile, flinches at every sound. Her weakness annoys him. She never fights back and barely speaks. But then he notices something strange. She doesn't fear him. And that wakes something in him he thought was long dead. It turns out the curse isn't supernatural. It's murder. Someone is killing the brides. And the killer has already chosen their next victim. Dorian has never saved anyone. Ivy has never been worth saving. Will Dorian's cold heart thaw in time to save her? Or will Ivy become the final victim of his curse?

Ten years ago, fourteen-year-old orphan Lumiere fled the ashes of a burning Italian villa with fifty euros, a broken memory, and a deadly bounty on her head. She escaped to the freezing streets of Helsinki, where she found what seemed like a miracle. A quiet bakery with an unbelievably cheap lease where she could finally build an ordinary life. For ten years, she baked bread, guarded her independence, and believed she had no one left in the world. She was wrong. The bakery she thought was her safe haven had been carefully arranged and secretly watched over by Mikael Koskivirta, the powerful billionaire who rules the Nordic underworld. He bought the building on the very day Lumiere signed the lease, quietly protecting her from the international cartels hunting the last surviving heir of a fallen mafia dynasty. Lumiere knows nothing about him until a corrupt municipal inspector storms into her bakery and threatens the life she has built. Then Mikael steps out of the shadows and ends the threat on her floorboards. In one terrifying moment, Lumiere's peaceful life is shattered. Her buried memories begin to surface, and she is pulled into Mikael's coastal fortress, where she learns that the danger chasing her has never truly disappeared. With rival Italian factions closing in and breaching their security systems, Mikael gives her an ultimatum: her quiet life is over. If she wants to survive the coming war, she must sign a binding marriage contract and take her place as queen of the Pohjola syndicate. But trusting Mikael may be just as dangerous as the people hunting her. Caught between her desperate need for freedom and the growing attraction she cannot ignore, Lumiere must decide whether to fight the dangerous man who has secretly shaped her world or trust him with her life.

“I now pronounce you husband and wife,” the priest announced, a knowing smirk tugging at his lips. “You may now kiss your bride.” Enzo Caruso’s jaw tightened. His new wife was nothing like the woman he expected. “Don’t expect me to be gentle,” he warned. He didn’t wait for permission. His hand locked around her chin, and his mouth crashed against hers—dominant, demanding, and meant to remind her who was in control. But he forgot one thing. Lokie Martin never submitted. She bit him. Hard. Enzo stumbled back with a sharp hiss, blood dripping from the corner of his lips and staining his perfect white sleeve. “Psycho bitch,” he snarled. Lokie only smiled. Slowly, she licked the blood from her lips, her eyes gleaming with something dangerously wild. “Now,” she whispered, “we’re married.” And for the first time in Enzo Caruso’s life, he wondered if he had just married his greatest enemy… or his greatest obsession. Everyone knew Lokie Martin. A psychopath. A monster. A woman who wore violence like a crown. She never denied the rumors. Because when the world took everything from her, Lokie had only one purpose left—protecting her little sister, Dawn. But protecting Dawn meant making the ultimate sacrifice: marrying Enzo Caruso, the ruthless heir of the Caruso Mafia empire, in a marriage designed to end a bloody war between their families. Enzo wanted a quiet, obedient wife. Someone who would bring peace to the chaos of his dangerous world. Instead, he got Lokie. A woman with sharp teeth, a sharper tongue, and a soul too broken to be tamed. Their marriage was supposed to be a temporary alliance. Until hatred turned into fascination. Fights became the only moments they understood each other. Till neither of them could walk away.

Bianca Salvatore has spent her entire life learning one thing: never trust anyone. Raised in foster homes and shaped by a childhood she would rather forget, Bianca had built herself into what had become the nightmare of even the most powerful men in the underworld —a highly skilled, cold-blooded assassin with a reputation for never failing a contract. Then she is given the contract of a lifetime: kill Luca Vincenzo, the ruthless and untouchable leader of the most powerful mafia cartel in Boston. Luca is everything Bianca has been trained to kill—dangerous, calculating, wealthy, and seemingly impossible to kill. When Bianca's assassination attempt goes wrong, she finds herself at Luca's mercy. Instead of killing her, Luca offers her a deal, one that changes everything. A temporary alliance between an assassin and the man she was hired to kill. But living together under the same roof changes everything. Luca discovers that the woman sent to murder him is far more complicated than the ruthless killer she pretends to be, with wounds, secrets, and a desperate longing for something she has never allowed herself to want: a home. And Bianca begins to discover that the monster she was sent to kill may not be the monster she believed him to be. As their attraction grows, the lines between captor and captive, enemy and ally, slowly begin to disappear. But love is dangerous in the mafia world. And someone is willing to destroy both of them to get what they want. Bianca must decide what is more important to her: the freedom she has spent her entire life fighting for, or the man she was supposed to kill. When an assassin falls in love with her target, the dangerous question is not who will die? But who will betray whom first?

~ A Steamy Romance Novella ~ “I was afraid,” he whispered, hands sliding up her legs. “Afraid that with all this danger, I'd have to admit what I really want. Who I want.” “And?” She gasped under her breath as his fingers trailed into her inner thighs. “What do you want?” Under lidded eyes, his gaze never wavered. “You.”  … Cold, logical and determined to protect his legacy, Roman Ricci needs a respectable wife for six months to gain the remnants of his father's legacy. Following an assassination attempt, Wounded and hunted by his power-hungry uncle, he finds himself in the home of Eva, the feisty stranger and bookstore owner that saved his life. On discovering her desperate needs, he decides on her as a perfect candidate. She needs money, he needs a wife. Thus, she agrees to six months of pretending in return for ten million. It should be nothing more than a business arrangement, but as enemies close in and attraction flies high, neither is certain where the act stops and their real desires begin. As time ticks and obstacles loom, it's up to them to define if their feelings would end or if this contract marriage holds something more.

Julienne had always prided herself on her sense of justice. As a criminal detective, she believed she would be able to do anything for the truth. That is until the lies looked right into her eyes and smiled. When she came home after a breakup text from her boyfriend of a year, Hades Bianchi, only to meet him and her sister, Lorelai, newly engaged and supposedly expecting a child, Julienne's world tilted on its axis. She is determined to stop the wedding, even if she has to dabble into murky waters, like kissing him hours before the wedding. But things get even messier when Lorelai doesn't show up to the ceremony and she is found dead in front of the cathedral, in her wedding dress. In order to cover up the scandal, the head of the Bianchi family decides to cover up the murder and have Julienne take her sister's place. Julienne agrees, mostly because she is the only one who knows how Hades looks when he isn't remorseful. But now that she is in his bed, his wedding band around her finger, desire and the truth collide, and Julienne will soon find out that the two may never be able to exist in the same space.

After losing her parents in a tragic plane crash, Elara Harrington is sold into marriage to a feared mafia billionaire to repay a debt she never owed. Cold, ruthless, and incapable of love, Dorian Damaris only needs a wife to secure his inheritance. Elara is merely a convenient solution. But as their forced marriage draws them closer, the lines between obligation and desire begin to blur. Just when Elara starts to trust the man behind the monster, a deadly war, and long-buried secrets threaten to tear everything apart. As shocking truths about her past come to light, she discovers that the life she remembers is built on lies and that someone will do anything to keep the truth buried. In a world ruled by power, betrayal, and revenge, Elara must decide if love is worth risking everything for.