Cruel Savior: An Arranged Marriage Mafia Romance (Ruthless Arrangements Book 1)

He saves her life. Then makes it a living hell.

When Mara Delacroix is sold to the most feared Don in the city to settle her father's debts, she expects a monster. What she gets is Dante Ricci — cold, ruthless, and devastatingly beautiful in the way only dangerous men can be. He doesn't want a wife. He wants leverage. And she's nothing more than a transaction.

But Mara refuses to become a possession.

Their arrangement sparks something neither of them bargained for — a war of sharp words, stolen glances, and hatred that burns a little too hot to be pure. Dante controls everything: her freedom, her future, her protection from the enemies who want her dead. What he can't control is the way his jaw tightens every time another man looks at her. Or the way his carefully constructed walls crack every time she refuses to break.

She hates him. He's infuriating, domineering, and absolutely certain he's always right.

She hates him less every single day.

Because somewhere between his cruel commands and the moments he thinks no one is watching, Mara glimpses the man beneath the monster — and that man is the most terrifying thing in his empire.

Falling for the man who owns you is foolish. Falling for the man who would burn the world down before letting anything touch you?

That's something else entirely.