MERCILESS RIVAL: A Rival Mafia Alliance, Enemies-to-Lovers, Bratva Marriage Romance

He thought he was marrying a stranger. She had already decided he was the only man in the room worth telling the truth to.For six years, Anya Kovalenko has run her family's Madrid territory in total silence - every contract, every crisis, every hard decision hers, while her cousin took the credit and her father let it happen. When a rival family's war threatens to spill into open bloodshed, Anya sees the only leverage she has left: propose a marriage alliance to a Falcone son, end the war on her own terms, and force her father to finally see what she's built.Then a wedding-night piece of intelligence changes everything.Because the cousin who's spent six years stealing her work isn't finished - and what he's about to sell to a rival network could cost Anya everything she's fought silently to build.Luca Falcone has spent a decade being the brother nobody worries about - easy, charming, never necessary. He doesn't expect a wife who negotiates her own dowry down, who reads a room faster than he does, who makes him want, for the first time in his life, to actually be necessary to someone who sees him clearly.As the danger closes in from inside her own family, Luca and Anya have to decide whether the marriage that started as a transaction is worth burning down an empire to protect.A deeply emotional story of loyalty, ambition, betrayal, and a heroine who finally gets to save herself.Perfect for readers who love a slow-burn arranged marriage and a hero who has to earn his place beside her.A standalone with a guaranteed HEA.Scroll up and start reading today.