MY CAPTIVE: A Dark Mafia Romance

**I was collateral before I ever knew his name.**Three men were waiting for Elena Marchetti on the docks. No masks. No hesitation. Just her brother's debt, and her price to pay it. Dante Rocchetti doesn't need her anymore - the debt is settled, paid in full, exactly as promised. She should be walking out his door tonight. He keeps her anyway. *He said if the debt was paid, she'd go home. He lied.* Behind the barred windows of his estate, Elena learns to survive the only way she knows how: watching, cataloguing, waiting for the mistake that will let her go. What she finds instead is a ledger that shouldn't exist, a debt manufactured eighteen months before she ever set foot on that dock - and a man who hands her the truth only in the pieces he decides she can handle. As a rival's shadow closes in and the walls of Dante's carefully controlled world start to crack, Elena has to decide what's more dangerous: staying captive to a man who explains himself only when it suits him, or trusting the one person capable of destroying her family completely. A slow-burn dark mafia romance of manufactured debt, forced proximity, and a betrayal that could burn everything down. Freedom was never the hard part. Choosing him - freely, completely, on her own terms - is. Closed-door romance - no explicit content.