I went on a blind date for my twenty-fifth birthday. and ended up in the hands of a mobster.
I arrived early to the little Italian restaurant-nervous, but determined to do something spontaneous for once. That's when a devastatingly handsome stranger slid into the seat across from me. Older. Gorgeous. Radiating a quiet, commanding menace that made my pulse stop.
He wasn't my date.
But he told me he was.
His name was     Alessio Morrone    -forty-six, terrifyingly powerful, and the head of one of New York's most feared mafia families. A man who hadn't wanted anyone in years. until he saw me.
Dinner turned into a kiss.
A kiss turned into the back of his limousine, where he took my innocence with slow, reverent hunger.
And by dawn, I was in his bed-ruined in every way he wanted me to be.
I panicked.
I ran.
I tried to forget him.
Alessio didn't let me.
Now he's everywhere-watching me, shadowing me, breaking into my apartment just to breathe me in. He threatens my father for daring to keep us apart. He nearly kills a man who touched my arm. He claims me with a devotion so fierce it borders on violent.
He wants me in his home.
In his bed.
Wearing his ring.
I know he's dangerous.
I know he's wrong for me.
But when he touches me-when he whispers the filthy, worshipful things he wants to do to me-fear melts into heat.
I should run.
He'll never let me.
And the most terrifying truth is how much I want to belong to him.
One night awakened him.
His devotion may destroy us both.