Finn: The Boston Syndicate, Book One

When Alessia Russo is handed over to the Irish Mob like a chess piece on her family's board, she makes one thing crystal clear to her new husband: compliance was never part of her DNA.

Born into the brutal elegance of Boston's most powerful Mafia dynasty, Alessia has survived her family's political machinations by keeping her sharp tongue sharper than their ambitions. But when a volatile power shift demands a new alliance, she finds herself bound in a forced marriage to Finn Callahan — ruthless head of the Irish Syndicate and the last man she'd ever choose to belong to.

Finn expects a biddable wife who understands her role. What he gets is a woman who throws his expectations back in his face before the ink on their arrangement is even dry. Their marriage may be a carefully constructed facade for Boston's criminal elite, but the war raging behind closed doors is devastatingly real — and so is the electricity neither of them can ignore.

As Alessia fights to carve out autonomy within a world designed to crush her, and Finn discovers that earning her respect matters more than demanding her submission, the lines between adversary and ally blur in the most dangerous ways. In a city where loyalty is currency and betrayal costs everything, their greatest threat might not be the enemies circling from outside — but the hunger neither can afford to surrender to.

Some alliances are forged in boardrooms. Theirs is forged in fire.