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"You are a beautiful, reckless terror, Mia. But in this house, I am the only authority. You belong completely, unconditionally, to me."
Nineteen-year-old Mia Moretti was always a ghost in her own life-a disposable pawn kept in the dark corners of her father's fracturing Russian Bratva empire. But when a brutal syndicate war ends in a rain-slicked Queens airfield, her father's reign is completely dismantled, and Mia is taken as the ultimate war prize by the ultimate victor: Don Gabriel Russo.
Gabriel is a thirty-eight-year-old titan of the Italian underground-a cold, unyielding monarch who commands absolute submission from everyone who walks in his shadow. Towering, heavily tattooed, and merciless, he brings his fiery, stubborn captive across the ocean to his ancestral fortress villa in the sun-baked hills of Sicily.
Mia's fiercely independent spirit and sharp intellect instantly clash with the rigid, traditional laws of the Russo household. She tests his boundaries at every turn, throwing tantrums and flashing her green eyes in defiance. But Gabriel doesn't break under her bratty pride; he anchors her with a fierce, possessive discipline that shatters her defenses and unearths the deeply submissive core she spent a lifetime hiding.
As Mia bends to his heavy hand, she realizes she isn't just a captive hidden behind stone walls. Armed with a brilliant mind for coding, she takes Gabriel's operations into the modern era, engineering a cutting-edge digital infrastructure for the syndicate that earns her the title of Donna.
But when the ghosts of Moscow launch a violent assault directly onto the villa's steps, Gabriel is forced to unleash a feral, protective fury to shield his sovereign inheritance. In a world of blood oaths, ancient feuds, and absolute dominance, Mia must fully surrender to the Don who holds her leash-because out here, a queen's true strength is found right by her monster's side.