“In a city the syndicate owns, the only thing they can’t buy is the one you’d burn it all to keep.”
Three ruthless men hold the power in Aldo Moretti’s Chicago — a kingpin, a shipping magnate, and the Commission’s deadliest blade. Each is handed a woman meant to be a tool: a wife planted as a living surveillance device, an accountant who saw too much, a target marked for erasure.
And each discovers the one thing the syndicate can never own — the person he’d burn his empire to keep. As the three men turn on the Commission that made them, the women they were supposed to use become the weapons that bring it down.
Three interconnected standalones. One falling empire. Three couples who refuse to be owned.
Book One — Bound by Cold Steel (Clara & Silas)
“Her father didn’t just sell her. He planted her — a microphone in a wedding dress.”
Clara Vance has been sold. Her father calls it an alliance; the Commission calls it a truce. A violinist and a mob daughter, she is handed across a ballroom to Silas Thorne — kingpin, twenty years her senior, silver at his temples and a stillness that empties rooms. He locks her in a tower of cold marble and colder rules, and she plays against the chill, because the music is the one part of her no one can buy.
Then she finds the listening device hidden in the wall of her own dressing room. Three doors stand open in front of her, and every one of them gets someone killed: the father who weaponized her, the Commission that hunts the one thing a man can’t survive losing, or the cold husband whose hands are somehow the only warm thing left in this poisoned city.
She was raised to vanish into whatever use a man could make of her. She is done vanishing.
Alternating First Person (Clara & Silas) • HEA
Book Two — Captured by the Scarred Boss (Elena & Dominic)
“He flinches when she looks. She’s the one woman who never does.”
Elena Petrov trusts arithmetic and nothing else. A forensic accountant who built her life into a wall, she opens an encrypted backup one midnight that was never meant to be read — a ledger mapping forty years of a syndicate’s stolen empire. Dominic King owns the building, the docks, and a face the warehouse fire left ruined. The moment she reads what she shouldn’t, the Commission of Five marks her for death — and Dominic does the only thing that keeps her breathing. He takes her.
Inside his fortress on the lake, captor and captive strike an impossible bargain: her mind against his enemy, in exchange for her life. But a mole moves in the dark, the docks burn, and Dominic learns the cruelest arithmetic of all — the woman who can destroy his enemy is the one he must convince to hate him, before loving her gets her killed.
Some walls keep you safe. Some just keep you alone.
Alternating First Person (Elena & Dominic) • HEA
Book Three — Claimed by the Rogue (Natalia & Julian)
“They sent their deadliest assassin to erase her. He turned his blade on the men who made him.”
Natalia Costa came to Chicago to do one thing: clear her murdered father’s name. He was a cop who kept a ledger — the one that could burn the Commission to the ground — and the syndicate killed him for it. Julian Sterling has never once disobeyed an order; he has erased people the city wouldn’t miss for twenty years. But the night he breaks in to finish the job, the finger that has never failed to pull a trigger will not move — so he takes her instead.
He calls the loft a safehouse. She calls it a cage, and decides to use it — because the assassin built to be unbreakable is the one man who can read her father’s kill file, and Natalia is the one woman who can aim it. Locked in together while Aldo Moretti’s enforcers hunt them through the rain-blind docks, two people who built their whole lives out of walls finally choose to lower one.
Natalia was raised to survive alone. He took the alone away — and she will burn this entire syndicate down before she lets them take him too.
Alternating First Person (Natalia & Julian) • HEA
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