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He bought her to settle a debt. She wasn't supposed to matter.

Sera is a baker with flour in her hair and a father who gambled away everything — including her. When Dominic Valentino, the most powerful man in New York's underworld, claims her as payment, she expects cold walls and colder silence.

She doesn't expect the way he watches her bake at three in the morning. Or the journal where he tracks every favour she owes him. Or the crack in his perfect control when she refuses to be afrai...
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He bought her to settle a debt. She wasn't supposed to matter.

Sera is a baker with flour in her hair and a father who gambled away everything — including her. When Dominic Valentino, the most powerful man in New York's underworld, claims her as payment, she expects cold walls and colder silence.

She doesn't expect the way he watches her bake at three in the morning. Or the journal where he tracks every favour she owes him. Or the crack in his perfect control when she refuses to be afraid of him.

He doesn't do love. She doesn't do obedient.

Dominic has rules. Don't get attached. Don't show weakness. Don't let anyone close enough to become a liability. Sera breaks every single one — with powdered sugar on her hands and a smart mouth that makes him forget why he built those walls in the first place.

But the enemies circling the Valentino empire don't care about favours or feelings. And when the debt that brought them together threatens to tear them apart, Dominic will have to choose: his empire or the woman who ruined him in the sweetest way possible.

The Sweetest Ruin is a full-length standalone mafia romance with an arranged marriage, a possessive Italian hero, explicit steam, and an HEA. Book 1 in The Valentino Kings series.
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