The Don Will Never Let Me Go

Sophia Campos has survived everything life has thrown at her — an abusive fiance who rapes and beats her, narcissistic parents who hold her down while he does it, and a sister sleeping with the man who controls her every breath. At twenty-four, she has a law degree she can't use, scars on her wrists from five suicide attempts, and a housekeeping uniform she puts on every morning at the Wisbech Manhattan, the crown jewel of New York's most powerful hotel empire.

Eros Wisbech is the thirty-year-old Don of the American Cosa Nostra — a man who slits throats at the council table and sleeps with women whose names he never learns. When his grandfather gives him an ultimatum — marry within eighteen months or lose the throne to his psychotic cousin Rael — Eros has no intention of complying. He doesn't do love. He doesn't do weakness. And he certainly doesn't do forever.

Then he meets the maid who won't cry.

After Sophia walks in on him mid-conquest, Eros tries every tactic to break her composure. She doesn't flinch. She doesn't beg. When he discovers the truth behind her dead eyes — the abuse, the rapes, the suicide attempts — something cracks open inside the most dangerous man in New York. He offers Sophia a contract: become his wife in name, gain his protection, and help him keep his crown. In exchange, she gets freedom from Owen, safety, and a life of her own.

What neither of them expects is for the contract to become real.

As Sophia transforms from a broken survivor into the Queen of the Cosa Nostra — a woman who can interrogate traitors, negotiate alliances, and command a room full of killers — Eros falls so hard he terrifies himself. His panic attacks return. He says "I love you" first. He holds her through nightmares and learns to change diapers when their twins arrive.

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