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Internationally Bestselling author Lucy Monroe turns up the heat in her spicy mafia world with a forced marriage, a widow with everything to lose, and an Irish mobster who steps out of the shadows and into her bed. In their world, protection comes with a price. And his price is forever. ÁINE Marrying a stranger to stay alive was not in my plans. Neither was falling for him. I'm a widow with three daughters, a mother to protect, and a dead husband whose betrayal put a target on all of us. When Kieran, the Shaughnessy Mob's most feared enforcer, offers his protection, there's only one condition. I have to marry him. Now. When the choice is between the safety of my family and my freedom...there isn't one. Kieran's a criminal whose friends call him Wraith. He offs people without hesitation and doesn't feel an ounce of guilt for forcing me into marriage. He also makes me and my girls feel safer than we ever have. And the way he makes my body react ought to be illegal, but it's not my ovaries he wants in handcuffs. He says he doesn't do soft. He says he wants a family, not a love story. But nobody warned me that watching a dangerous man go to war for me and my girls would be the most seductive thing I'd ever seen. What happens when I fall in love with the grumpy mobster despite my best intentions and his? WRAITH I've spent my life in the shadows. Covert ops. CIA black sites. Freelance assassinations. Mob enforcement. I don't need much. Then I meet Áine Gallagher. And suddenly I want everything. With curves that walked right out of my darkest fantasies, she's brave and mouthy and more than a little dramatic with her emojis. She's also a mother who would burn the world down for her girls. And now, every inch of her is mine. Mine to protect, mine to keep, mine to ruin for every other man who ever thought he had a chance. I'm not built for soft. But I'm built for her—every lush, tempting, infuriating inch. This is a standalone mafia romance with a guaranteed HEA. Content on the page violence, foul language, arranged/forced marriage, past sexual coercion in the workplace, mention of attempted sexual assault (minor to minor), mention of a deceased spouse, and explicit spice on the page.
Author
USA Today bestseller and award winning Lucy Monroe’s love affair with books and reading began at age 4. She often climbed her mother’s book stacks to pull down the novels on the top shelves. When she was caught reading the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of “The Godfather” while still in Kindergarten, those books got moved. Although she’s always loved mysteries and suspense as well, romance has been her passion since she snuck that first Harlequin Presents from her oldest sister’s bedside table (again way too early). Her path to publication was not strewn with rose petals or even pavement! Lucy wrote more than one million words of romantic fiction before selling her 13th manuscript to Harlequin Presents. However, she subsequently sold all the romance manuscripts she’d written prior to that to Harlequin, Kensington and Berkley. She went on to write more books and published with Grand Central and Samhain Publishing as well, before embarking on an exciting journey into indie publishing. Lucy has hit national bestsellers lists in England and the USA. She’s had more than 80 books published and been translated into numerous languages with her books for sale in dozens of countries. Her highly charged, sensual stories touch on the realities of life while giving the reader a fantasy story not easily forgotten. Lucy’s books transport her readers to a special place where the heart rules and love conquers all. Known for her emotional depth, snappy dialogue, solid plotting and dry wit, Monroe’s stories have found their way into readers’ hearts and their keeper shelves. Which is exactly where she most wants to be. An author who writes so she can touch readers’ hearts, she’s never happier than when hearing from readers when she’s done so.
