Long Exposure: A Dark Mafia Enemies to Lovers Romance

He was sent to silence her. He can't stop watching her instead.Nine years behind the bar at the Nine Bells has taught Wren Halloway exactly how far this city will look away. So when her camera catches a Cataldo enforcer putting a body in the water, she doesn't run, and she doesn't call it in. She develops the print. She crops it to the one thing that will keep her alive. And she sends a made man a bill.Rocco Cataldo has spent fourteen years making problems disappear. The Family has already closed the file on the night somebody stood on that mudflat with a light in their hand. Rocco is the only one still looking, six weeks on, and when he finds her she has her hands flat on the counter, handing him exactly what he came for and keeping the rest, and something in him that has never once missed doesn't take the shot.So he keeps her close instead. Watched. Under his roof, on terms she wrote herself. A cage with the door standing open, if she's brave enough to use it.She isn't leaving. Not for the money. Not for him. And every frame she develops in the dark pulls them both closer to a truth that could bury them: his family's oldest secret, her mother's, and a target on her back that no amount of proof can burn away.Two people bound by exactly what could end them. A witness who won't run. An enforcer who can't finish the job. Medium-burn, high-intensity. When it ignites, it doesn't apologize for it.Some things are exposed all at once. Some take longer to develop.A standalone dark mafia romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Explicit content, intended for readers 18 and over.The Cataldo Dynasty is a series of interconnected standalones. One couple, one complete happily-ever-after, one shared crime world. Start anywhere. Read in order to watch the Family rise.