Devil's Lily: A Dark Mafia Romance (Nightshades Book 1)

One blind date. One ruthless stranger. One stolen life.

Elira Përmeti expects a forgettable evening — awkward small talk, mediocre wine, an early exit. What she gets instead is Maximo Leonotti: devastatingly magnetic, dangerously intense, and harboring secrets that will shatter everything she knows. Before the night ends, Elira wakes aboard a private jet bound for Las Vegas, with a wedding ring and a terrifying truth waiting for her at the destination.

Her father owes Maximo a debt, and she is the payment.

Set against the glittering, blood-soaked world of organized crime, *Devil's Lily* is a dark mafia romance that pulls no punches. As the daughter of a powerful Albanian crime lord, Elira understands the brutal calculus of the underworld — but nothing prepares her for the volatile war her disappearance threatens to ignite. Caught between her father's empire and her captor's iron grip, she is a pawn in a deadly game with no safe moves.

Yet Maximo is not the monster she expects. Possessive, lethal, and consuming, he claims Elira as his own with a ferocity that is equal parts terrifying and intoxicating. And the more she fights him, the more she feels herself pulled toward the very man who stole her freedom.

Some captors break you. Some captors become the one thing you cannot walk away from.

*Devil's Lily* is the first book in the Nightshades series — and this is only the beginning.