The Caged Bird's Delight

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My shoulder stings and my throat burns but when I turn around neither matters because Crowe is standing in the doorway to his cell and the metal bars are sliding closed. - The Caged Bird's Delight</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Melanie</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I used to be a chef and owner of my own restaurant ... until my father made good on a debt he owed by selling not only my business but me his own daughter to a crime syndicate!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What began as a terrible betrayal turned into a nightmare when the mafia don Crowe was arrested and landed himself in the most dangerous prison in the country. I should have been free. Instead I was forced to serve under him in the penitentiary.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>None of this is fair. And it hardly makes sense but I'm trapped here until further notice with my enigmatic boss. Now I must go along with a dangerous plot I never agreed to if I ever want to be free...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Crowe is calculating volatile and impossible to forget.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As fascinating and sexy as he is dangerous.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>God I never said I was your strongest soldier.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This alien monster mafia story has the following:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dual POV</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A resilient and smart FMC</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A hot dangerous and fiercely protective mafia don MMC</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>High stakes!!</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Boss + employee</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Touch her and die</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Monsters and mafia</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>SPICE and SWOON</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Size difference</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Aphrodisiac pheromones</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...and more!</span></li></ul><p><br></p>