Devil You Hate: A Dark Mafia Romance (The Diavolo Crime Family Series, Book 1)

Some debts are paid in blood. Celia's is paid in something far worse—her freedom.

When her fiancé offers her up to settle his debts with the most feared man in the Diavolo crime family, Celia becomes property of Nic Diavolo, a man the criminal underworld calls "The Devil" for very good reason. Cold, ruthless, and utterly unpredictable, Nic views her as nothing more than a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. She is a transaction. A means to an end. Nothing more.

Except Celia refuses to act like it.

Set against the brutal backdrop of organized crime and its darkest corners, this contemporary dark mafia romance crackles with danger and tension from the very first page. Celia's quiet defiance does something dangerous—it gets under Nic's skin. The more she pushes back against his cruelty, the more his iron control begins to fracture. He tells himself his growing obsession is purely possessive, that monsters don't feel things like want or need.

He's wrong.

What unfolds between them is volatile, consuming, and deeply unsettling—a power struggle where the lines between captor and protector blur in the most intoxicating ways. In a world where trust gets you killed and softness is a weakness, two people who should destroy each other might be the only salvation either has ever known.

The Devil has met his match. The only question is who survives the fall.