BOUND BY BLOOD: You are not like us

Nico Vitale has spent thirty years reading people.It's how he survived. How he climbed to the top of one of New York's most powerful Mafia families. In a world built on lies, betrayal, and blood, Nico possesses a gift that borders on dangerous: he can read anyone.A glance.A hesitation.A heartbeat too fast.Nothing escapes him.Until Sofia Reyes.From the moment she walks into a Vitale family dinner on Elena's arm, Nico knows something is wrong. Sofia is warm, charming, effortlessly confident, and impossible not to like.And every instinct he has tells him she's hiding something.The problem?For the first time in his life, Nico can't figure out what.The more he watches her, the more obsessed he becomes. Every smile feels calculated. Every answer carefully chosen. Every glimpse behind her walls only reveals another mystery waiting beneath.Sofia has spent years protecting a secret that could change everything.A secret buried so deeply that no one has ever come close to uncovering it.Not her enemies.Not her friends.And certainly not Nico Vitale.But Nico has never walked away from a puzzle he couldn't solve.Especially when the puzzle keeps invading his thoughts.What begins as curiosity quickly becomes something far more dangerous. A battle of wills. A game of control. A relentless push and pull between a man determined to uncover every one of her secrets and a woman determined to keep them hidden at any cost.The closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell where suspicion ends and desire begins.Because Sofia isn't just hiding from Nico.She's hiding from the part of herself that wants to stop running.And Nico Vitale has never accepted defeat.Not in business.Not in war.And certainly not when it comes to a woman he can't stop wanting.A dark Mafia romance filled with obsession, tension, dangerous secrets, possessive devotion, emotional surrender, and a battle of wills where losing might be the only way to win.

Pages: 233, Paperback, Independently published