Brutal Collateral: An Irish Mafia Enemies to Lovers Arranged Marriage Dark Romance (Quinlan Empire, Book 1)

When Griffin Quinlan discovers his arranged bride is the woman he's spent years hunting, he isn't sure whether fate has handed him a gift or a death sentence.

As a ruthless force in the Irish Mafia, Griffin has built his empire on calculated moves and cold vengeance. An alliance marriage is simply another transaction—until Ava Zervas walks through the door. She's no longer the girl who disappeared from his life years ago. She's a battle-hardened Navy elite with secrets sharp enough to cut, and she has absolutely no intention of becoming anyone's political pawn.

Ava has survived things that would break most men. Being sold off to a mafia prince in a backroom deal? Not in her plans. She matches Griffin's iron will with a ferocity that unsettles him in ways no enemy ever has, and the tension crackling between them is as dangerous as it is undeniable.

What begins as a strategic contract quickly spirals into a volatile collision of pride, power, and buried history. Griffin wants answers. Ava wants freedom. And somewhere beneath the threats and the sparring, something far more combustible threatens to ignite.

Set against the shadowy world of Irish organized crime, *Brutal Collateral* layers dark romance with pulse-pounding suspense and razor-sharp wit. This is an enemies-to-lovers story with real teeth—where the line between obsession and love is written in fire.

The question isn't whether they'll surrender to each other. It's whether either of them will survive it.