An Uneasy Alliance: Irish Mafia Marriage of Convenience, Enemies-to-Lovers, Forced Proximity Romance

He has confessed every sin but the one that matters. She is the first person who ever named it out loud.Nora Fitzpatrick runs nineteen hundred laborers on the West Side, and she runs them clean, because her father didn't. She's spent her whole adult life paying down a debt three men died for. Then the old business agent dies in his chair, the local goes up for grabs, and the Mahoneys send their enforcer to bring it to heel.Fin Mahoney tells you what he's going to do before he does it. That's the only mercy in him.He was supposed to be a priest. He came home for his mother's funeral and became his family's blade instead. Thirteen years later, he's still never said why.Nora and Fin should be enemies. Instead, they keep finding themselves on the same side of the table, furious over everything and unwilling to give an inch. Neither of them can fire the weapon they own. He can't touch a union officer without bringing the federal government down on his family. She can't stop the West Side without taking the pay out of nineteen hundred kitchens.Then somebody comes for Nora in the dark.The Mahoneys offer protection the only way they know how: with a ring, a set of terms, and a name she has no intention of taking.She married him to save the hall.Nobody warned her what it would cost to want him.Marriage of convenience - enemies to lovers, moral rather than personal - grumpy x grumpy, no sunshine anywhere - forced proximity in one very small apartment - touch-her-and-die possessive protector - a heroine with real institutional power - found family in a union hall - a hero who does not reformLevel 4 Spice. Possession, praise, restraint, service-and a woman who has run everything since she was nine finally getting to put it down.A note before you start: this is a mafia romance with no marble foyer in it. No billionaire in a bespoke suit.The money here is wages, and the enemy is a patient old house that takes a union apart with petitions and a hearing date rather than a gun. The violence is real. It's on the page, and it costs.And Fin Mahoney is not redeemed.He's exactly as lethal on the last page as he is on the first. The only thing that moves is who he obeys.If you want a made man who softens into a safe husband, this one won't do it. If you want a dangerous man who stays dangerous-and turns the blade around-come in.AN UNEASY ALLIANCE is Book 2 in an interconnected-standalone Irish mob romance series and reads perfectly well on its own. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.