He Was Doomed to Die Until I Married Him

From the back cover

Ten days before our scheduled wedding, my fiancé, Capo Leo Gallo, came to my family's estate in the pouring rain.

He didn't come to comfort me over my parents' recent deaths. He came to tell me that his mistress, Angelica, would remain by his side and hold the real power in our home. I was to be his wife in name only.

He wanted to publicly humiliate me and steal my family's Brooklyn docks.

In my past life, I didn't realize Leo and his family had actually orchestrated the brutal ambush that left my parents dead in a pool of blood.

I endured his insults, only to be locked away in a gilded cage while they used my six-year-old brother, Luca, as a hostage.

They drained my mother's trust fund, elevated his mistress to rule my home, and eventually sent my little brother and me to our miserable graves.

They thought I was just a powerless orphan they could easily crush.

They thought I didn't know the absolute truth behind the massacre that ruined my family and crippled the Don's eldest son, Damien Moretti.

Opening my eyes again, I was back in the cold drizzle, listening to his arrogant demands.

"As you wish, Leo," I said, burying my burning need for vendetta beneath a mask of hollow defeat.

The moment he left to celebrate his victory, I turned to my loyal maid.

"Send a message to the Mafia Queen. Tell her I am breaking my engagement to Leo. I wish to marry her crippled son, Damien, instead."