The Enemy’s Throne: A Dark Mafia Power Couple Romance

The war was built on a lie. Their love will decide who rules the ruins. Valentina DeLuca was supposed to disappear. Disowned by her father, hunted by the families that once tried to own her, and branded a terrorist by the Architect's lies, she should be nothing more than a ghost in the wreckage of Oakhaven. Instead, she has become something far more dangerous. A sovereign strategist. A woman with a blade in her hand, a medical cast on her arm, and a blood pact binding her to the one man she was never supposed to love. Dante Vescari is no longer the Butcher of the South Side. He has rejected the code that made him a weapon, but the violence still lives in him, sharpened by devotion. Bound to Valentina by a sensory tether that carries every spike of pain, fear, and rage between them, he would burn the city down before he lets anyone cage her again. But Valentina does not need a shield. She needs an equal. With Oakhaven trapped in a citywide blackout and the midnight fail-safe counting down, Valentina and Dante have one final chance to reach the Throne Vault beneath the old Maritime Exchange. Inside waits the proof that can expose the manufactured feud, clear their names, and destroy the Architect's final hold over the city. If they fail, the corrupted data will brand them as the masterminds behind the massacre, bury the truth forever, and leave the underworld to devour itself. The DeLuca empire is collapsing. The Vescari code is dead. The fathers who built the lie are losing their grip. And every capo, killer, and ghost in Oakhaven is watching to see who will claim the throne from the ashes. Valentina and Dante are done surviving. They are done obeying. They are done being enemy heirs in a war designed to break them. Tonight, they either seize the future together, or rot beneath the ruins of the world that made them.

Pages: 396, Paperback, Independently published