Mafia's Little Grape

Grape-stomping student accidentally spends night with boyfriend's mafia father.

Lily leaves campus to crush grapes for tuition money. On Eric's birthday, a friend convinces her to bind herself to a backyard swing as a risqué gift. The plan derails when Victor, Eric's father and a feared mafia patriarch, walks through the door instead. An unintended night together pulls the student into a brutal underworld far removed from her modest goals, tangling her future with his violent power.

• romance
• mafia
• drama

1. Lily stomps grapes for tuition
2. Birthday surprise targets boyfriend Eric
3. Victor, mafia father, appears instead

Readers wanting a gritty accidental-encounter romance with high-stakes consequences.