Ruthless Saint

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A dark steamy mafia romance where a ruthless kingpin is forced to protect the one woman whose past could destroy his empire... and the obsession he's buried for years is the most dangerous secret of all.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She should have been dead. She should have stayed away.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dante Santoro built his empire on blood silence and the kind of control that makes powerful men flinch. He answers to no one. He protects nothing he can't afford to lose. And he has one secret he will take to the grave.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then she walks back into his city. Alessa. The girl he saved when he was still young enough to believe saving people didn't cost anything. She's looking for answers about a past she doesn't remember pulling at threads connected to bodies he buried himself.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He should make her disappear. Instead he puts her under his roof under his watch under his skin.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alessa doesn't know who Dante Santoro really is. She only knows he's the man standing between her and the truth. He's cold. He's calculating. And he looks at her like she's something he's been starving for.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They call him Saint. But the way he watches her has nothing holy about it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She came for answers. He'll give her everything except the one truth that would make her run.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes: Mafia Romance Enemies to Lovers Forced Proximity Possessive Antihero Age Gap He Falls First Who Did This to You Dark Obsession</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heat Level: Steamy (open door) Ending: Guaranteed HEA Series: Empire of Secrets Book 1</strong></p><p></p>