Married to My Father's Debt: An Age-Gap Mafia Marriage Romance

She was never asked. She was owed.Elara Castellan finds out she's getting married the same afternoon she finds out why: her father's debts have finally come due, and the only currency left to pay them is her. The man collecting is Rhys Kallas - twenty years her senior, feared across three territories, and utterly unmoved by her fury at being handed over like a line item.Rhys didn't ask for a bride. He asked for what he was owed, and Milo Castellan offered his daughter instead of his life. Rhys almost said no. He didn't - not because he wants a wife, but because turning her away means signing her father's death warrant, and Rhys has never been a man who lets someone else's cowardice become an innocent woman's sentence.Married within the week to a stranger, Elara expects a cold arrangement and a colder house. What she finds instead is a man who keeps his hands to himself, keeps his word without being asked twice, and slowly, infuriatingly, becomes the only person in her life who's never once tried to spend her like currency.But debts have a way of not staying settled, and the war that put a ring on her finger isn't finished with either of them yet.A slow-burn, arranged-marriage age-gap romance with a controlled, honorable hero, a heroine who refuses to disappear into the role she's been handed, and a closed-door romance built on respect long before it's built on anything else.