Beschrijving

An innocent art student. A cold, ruthless mafia cleaner who erases crime scenes for a living. And the high-profile execution that chains them together forever.

I am the Shadow. The elite asset who sanitizes the Argento Syndicate’s bloodiest indiscretions. My mind operates like a sterile machine—calculating angles, neutralizing data, and leaving zero variables behind. I don’t feel. I don’t hesitate.

Until I found her trembling behind a block of marble in a ruined gallery.

Nova Cavallo wasn’t supposed to be there. She wasn’t supposed to witness a syndicate execution. By all accounts of mafia blood-law, she is a liability that protocol demands I liquidate.

But the moment her terrified hazel eyes locked into mine, my cold, dead soul shattered. My clinical machine locked up, replaced by a roaring, terrifyingly intense wave of pure, primal obsession.

Protocol dictates her erasure. My animal instincts demand her absolute possession.

Instead of eliminating the hidden witness, I drug-induce her and smuggle her deep beneath the Manhattan subway system into The Zero Grid—my hyper-secure, subterranean safehouse. I forge her death certificate, freeze her assets, and systematically wipe her past from every database on the planet. To the upper world, Nova is a ghost. To me, she is my goddamn religion.

Now, she is buried deep beneath the earth in a gilded cage filled with luxury art supplies, entirely isolated from her old life. I track her pulse, monitor her breathing, and watch her daily routines through my sterile lenses.

My brothers demand her liquidation. A rival strike team is launching a heavily armed breach into my tunnels to find her. But they don’t understand the feral, territorial madness they have unchained inside me.

Nobody enters my grid. Nobody takes what belongs to the Shadow. I will launch a total digital deletion script and butcher anyone who tries to step within her perimeter before I ever let her go.

Because Nova isn’t a witness anymore. She is my fated queen. And I will sanitize the entire city with their corpses to keep her safe inside my shadow.

What to Expect Inside This Dark Mafia Romance:

The Hero: An introverted, hyper-observant, and completely unhinged possessive alpha hero who falls hard, fast, and drops his mask completely for his queen.

The Tropes: Extreme \