Dirty Vow: An Italian Mafia, Forced Marriage, Dark Possessive Romance
Her father's debt bought her a husband. His own heart was never part of the deal
Vivi Hale has spent her whole life restoring what other people gave up on - patiently repairing the damage decades of neglect leave behind, one careful brushstroke at a time. She never imagined that skill would be the only thing standing between her and the collapse of her entire world
Her father owes the Moretti crime family four hundred thousand dollars he doesn't have. Damian Moretti, the cold, controlled new head of that family, doesn't want the money. He wants a wife - and Vivi is the price of her father's freedom
She signs the contract in a single night, trading her old life for a marriage built on obligation instead of love, moving into a house full of locked doors, careful rules, and a husband who says almost nothing about himself. She expects cruelty. What she finds instead is a man capable of unexpected, guarded kindness - art supplies left without a note, a rare unguarded laugh, a hand that always finds hers in a crisis before either of them decides to let it
But Damian married her for a reason he never explains: to keep her father close enough to watch. Six years ago, Arthur Hale was in the room the night Damian's father died and failed to warn him in time. Somewhere behind the one door in this house Vivi isn't allowed to open is the truth about that night, and about exactly how much her own family owes the Morettis beyond money
Damian never planned to fall for the woman he married to solve a problem. He never planned for the walls he's spent six years building around every soft, unguarded part of himself to come down for anyone - least of all a stranger he forced into his life through a debt she never created. But somewhere between a wedding built on paper and a marriage that quietly becomes real, he stops being able to tell the difference between strategy and genuine, terrifying love
Then Nikolai Volkok the man responsible for his father's death resurfaces with a plan six years in the making, and everything Damian has spent this marriage trying to protect is suddenly the target. Isabella, Damian's teenage sister, is taken as bait. Marco, Damian's closest cousin, has been hiding a betrayal that could cost this family everything. And Vivi, the woman Damian swore he'd never let this dangerous world touch, becomes exactly what Volkov wanted all along: the one piece of leverage capable of making a careful, controlled man reckless enough to lose
As one devastating night forces every secret in this family into the open at once, Vivi and Damian have to decide how far they're willing to go for a marriage neither of them chose, and a love neither of them expected to need this badly to survive. What Vivi discovers about her own father's role in a six-year-old tragedy will change how she sees every person she loves. What Damian is forced to choose in the story's final, dangerous hours will change what kind of man and what kind of husband he actually intends to become
A deeply emotional addictive standalone story of obsession, danger, betrayal, and a hard-won love strong enough to survive all three with a guaranteed happily ever after
Perfect for readers who love:
- Forced marriage romance with real emotional stakes
- A morally gray mafia hero who protects fiercely and loves harder
- A heroine who refuses to just survive her own story
- Slow-burn tension that finally, devastatingly breaks
- Dark, possessive romance without unnecessary cruelty
- Found family and hard-won redemption arcs
Dirty Vow is a complete standalone novel with no cliffhangers and no cheating just one dangerous, unforgettable vow, and the two people who finally, fully choose each other because of it, not in spite of it
A marriage that began as a debt collected in vows becomes something neither of them ever expected to fight this hard to keep
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