Ruined by the Enemy - Paperback

by Cora J. Riley (Author)

Bianca Costa doesn't do quiet. She doesn't do grateful, either - not when her father hands her over to end a war she never started, to a man whose family buried her brother.

Enzo Marchetti doesn't do feelings. He does arithmetic: a wedding for a truce, a wife for a peace treaty, nothing more. He tells her so at their first dinner - flat, cold, and completely without apology.

She married him anyway. Not because she wanted to. Because twelve years of bodies had to stop somewhere.

What neither of them planned on: a shared bathroom with a lock that doesn't work. A gym session that turns into something neither of them can call training anymore. A jealousy neither one can explain away as strategy. And a truth, buried for twelve years, that's about to tear apart everything they've built - because the war that started this marriage was never about their families at all.

Enzo has one rule: never let his own comfort cost her dignity. He breaks it once, in the ugliest way possible, the night grief finally catches up to him. Bianca has one rule: never let a man make her small. She's about to find out exactly how far she's willing to fight for a marriage that started as nothing but a price - and became everything.

Ruined by the Enemy is a dark, slow-burn mafia romance with forced proximity, a cruel-then-repentant hero, jealousy on both sides, and a possessive, hard-won HEA. Book one of The Marchetti Vendetta.