The Mafia's Black Opal

Valerio Marchioni

Six years ago, I got the job I never wanted--being the head of the Italian Mafia. There's no room to take my position lightly. I do whatever is required of me, according to the rules passed down from my father, including marrying someone I'm not in love with. I hold respect for her as the mother of my children and a former member of another Italian family. It only takes one night for us to be split apart forever. One vulnerable moment when I leave for a business trip gives someone the chance to attack my family. Now my pregnant wife is gone without a trace to be found. I will find who's responsible and make sure their blood runs through the streets of New York City. First, I have to send all the women I find in the process, home. Except for her, the woman with nowhere to go.
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It only takes one night for me to be taken. I should've been safer than anyone. Yet I end up on the circuit, bounced around from place to place. It's only on the day I decide to escape that I'm rescued by him, Valerio Marchioni. A man I should hate with every fiber in me. But then I get to know him. I see him for who he really is. And by then, it's too late. I can never leave, not even if I wanted to. If he discovers who I really am, I'll be dead before the men who took his wife.