280 Days With The Mafia King
She was meant to belong to God, but fate handed her to the devil instead.
Mariella Santini was raised within convent walls as a nun after her father’s sudden “accidental” death. Days before taking her final vows, a single message shatters her faith: her father’s death was no accident. Her search for the truth draws her into the De Luca mansion and straight into the path of the most feared man in London’s underworld.
Luciano De Luca, known as Il Re Nero, is the Black Heir of the Five Families. Cold, ruthless, and bound by an ancient law that demands a wife and an heir within one year, or he will lose his empire if he fails. Love is a weakness he buried long ago. Faith is a lie he never believed in.
Until the night he bleeds at Mariella’s feet, and her touch binds their futures in fire and prophecy.
One forbidden night.
One impossible pregnancy.
When Mariella discovers she is pregnant with Luciano’s child, she becomes the solution to his throne and the prisoner of a 280 days marriage built on rules, control, and denial. She is to be his wife in name only, protected but unloved, and destined to leave once the child is born.
Yet as enemies close in and blood-soaked prophecies unfold, the lines between duty and desire blur. The closer Luciano pulls her into his world, the more dangerous it becomes to pretend he feels nothing.
And the more Mariella prays for salvation, the more her heart betrays her.
Will she return to the life she once vowed to live, or surrender to the Mafia King she cannot escape?