Detonate: A Dark Mafia Romance (Beneath the Mask)

He kills people for a living, and she's the one woman he can't bring himself to stay away from.

Cain built his life in the shadows of New York City with ruthless precision—world-renowned boxing trainer by day, mafia hitman by night. After a devastating betrayal drove him out of the special forces seven years ago, darkness isn't just where he operates; it's who he is. He doesn't do connections. He doesn't do complications. And he absolutely doesn't do sunshine-bright women who look at him like they can see straight through every wall he's constructed.

She hates him. He knows it. He should return the feeling.

He doesn't.

One stolen kiss detonates everything he's carefully built, and suddenly the grumpy, battle-hardened killer finds himself tangled up with the one person who refuses to be intimidated by him. She pushes back. She challenges him. She makes him feel things that men like him aren't supposed to feel—and in the brutal world of New York's criminal underworld, feelings get people killed.

But walking away means leaving her unprotected in a world that's already noticed her, and that's the one thing Cain refuses to do.

Dark, compulsive, and laced with the kind of slow-burn tension that makes pages impossible to turn fast enough, *Detonate* is the grumpy-sunshine mafia romance that proves the most dangerous explosions aren't always the ones you see coming.

Some sparks were never meant to be contained.