Bound by Honor

Aria Scuderi has known since childhood that her marriage would be arranged to serve the family, and now the arrangement has a name: Luca Vitiello, the future head of the New York Famiglia and a man whose reputation for violence precedes him everywhere. Terrified of the monster she has heard about, Aria enters the marriage braced for cruelty and finds instead a man more complicated than the stories, dangerous and territorial but capable of a restraint she never expected. Reilly builds the romance out of fear, power, and a slow, wary trust, tracking Aria as she learns to read the man beneath the reputation and Luca as he decides she is worth protecting.