Léo Albuquerque's first day at Marchetti Enterprises ends with scalding coffee down the chest of the most dangerous man in the city.
A clumsy junior analyst with a cat named Mingau and three months of back rent, Léo has no business being anywhere near the fortieth floor. But when a software glitch exposes a five-million-dollar arms laundering operation to his spreadsheet, Vittorio Marchetti — billionaire by day, ruthless mafia Don by night — makes him an offer he can't refuse: become his personal financial assistant, or don't leave the building alive.
What starts as survival quickly becomes something far more dangerous than the underworld. Léo's genius for numbers makes him indispensable. His stammering honesty cracks through Vittorio's iron armor. And the possessive Don, who has never let anyone past his defenses, discovers that the greatest threat to his empire isn't a rival family — it's a blue-eyed accountant who makes him feel things a man in his position can't afford.
As Léo rises from captive bookkeeper to the Marchetti Counselor — the most powerful advisory seat in the criminal hierarchy — enemies close in from every side. The Romano family wants blood. A deadly assassin called the Specter stalks the shadows. And a buried secret about Léo's own father threatens to destroy everything they've built together.
From the ports of Santos to the palazzos of Palermo, from corporate boardrooms to armored basements, Léo and Vittorio must fight rival Dons, federal investigations, scheming ex-fiancées, and their own demons to forge something no one thought possible in their world: a love that even the underworld can't break.
He spilled coffee on the most dangerous man in the city. Then he stole his heart.
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