The Mafia's Sweetheart, the Gambling Debt's Spicy Wife

A father trades his daughter to a mafia boss to settle gambling debts.

Evelyn, twenty-two, is given to mafia boss Luca as collateral by her gambling-addicted father to erase his losses.

• mafia
• romance
• dark

1. Evelyn is twenty-two years old
2. Father trades her for gambling debts
3. Luca is a mafia boss

Crime romance readers drawn to power-imbalance dynamics and forced-proximity tension.