Bound by Honor

Sheltered mafia princess forced to wed violent New York successor.

Aria has spent eighteen years protected inside her Chicago crime family, never seeing the executions and extortion that built their empire. Duty shatters that safety when elders pledge her to Luca, the glacial successor ruling New York's underworld. He personifies the savagery she was spared, and the alliance demands she yield completely to a man forged in bloodshed.

• romance
• mafia
• ceo

1. Aria is eighteen and sheltered
2. Luca commands New York underworld
3. Marriage alliance binds them

This drama fits anyone drawn to forced proximity between a naive heiress and a hardened crime boss.