Stolen Vows

He promised her the truth. Eight days after the wedding, he took a meeting he didn't tell her about. Bianca Alvarez has spent four years reading case files for the United States Attorney's office and six months quietly in love with Matteo Moretti, the clean brother, the one his family kept out of the business on purpose. She knows exactly what the Morettis are. She decided a long time ago she could live with it. Then a woman from Odessa walks into a family wedding and says Bianca's name out loud. The file on Bianca's desk is a wind-down, a dead man's paperwork, boxed and forgotten by everyone but her. But the letter in box four was typed on her own office's letterhead. The drive it refers to was never recovered. And the only people who could have made it disappear work in the building where she badges in every morning. Matteo wants her out of it. He has spent his whole life watching the men in his family protect their women by lying to them, and he swore on an altar he would never do it, and he is about to learn how fast that promise breaks when he is frightened. Bianca has her own reason for refusing. She was fifteen when her father went to work and did not come home, and nineteen when she found out why, alone, from a microfiche machine in a college library. She is done being protected into the dark. Stolen Vows is a full-length romantic suspense: a married couple under siege, a heroine whose only weapon is the written record, a crime family slowly learning to tell each other the truth, and a corruption that reaches further into Washington than anyone in Chicago will say out loud. Closed door romance, no explicit content. Book Two of The Moretti Vows.