He buried his brother on a Tuesday. By Thursday, someone had already arranged his marriage. Enzo Mariani has run the most powerful crime family on the Eastern Seaboard for eighteen years through one control everything, need nothing. When a Calabrian assassin puts a bullet in the wrong man—his brother, not him—Enzo doesn't grieve. He builds a strategy. And when the Ricci family offers an alliance sealed with a marriage, he accepts, because alliances are mathematics and mathematics don't require feelings. What they send him is Luca Ricci. Luca is twenty-nine, sharp-edged, and arrives at Enzo's estate knowing exactly what he's been traded for. He's not deceived about the arrangement. He's not afraid of the Don. What he is—dangerously, inconveniently—is honest. And he's carrying a secret that could dismantle a hidden order from a powerful old man to extract information from inside Enzo's house. Information that, if handed over, would make Luca's father very useful and Enzo very dead. The problem is the more time Luca spends inside this house—inside this man's carefully sealed life—the less willing he is to follow through. What neither of them planned for is what happens in the space between strategy and truth. Late-night whiskey in a library full of books that are actually read. A garden planted by a dead woman that neither man can stop returning to. The moment when two people who were built to manage everything stop managing each other. The specific, unbearable cost of choosing honesty in a world that rewards silence. There's a traitor in the organization. A mercenary still hunting. An old man pulling strings from a villa in New Jersey. And somewhere inside all of it, two men discovering that the most dangerous thing either of them has ever done is let the walls come down. Crown of Violence is a full-length dark MM mafia romance featuring an arranged marriage between an older, morally grey Don and a younger man who refuses to be managed. It contains explicit content, organized crime, violence, and a hard-won HEA. Intended for readers 18+. Get your copy now—some loyalties are earned in the dark.