Giovanni by Claire Kirby

I inherited my Nonna’s restaurant, along with a debt to the mob I can never repay, and a baby I never meant to conceive.

Giovanni Conti walks into my kitchen like he owns it—because apparently, he does.

Underboss to Atlantic City’s most powerful crime family, twenty-one years my senior, and dangerous in every way that matters.

He could take everything from me.

Instead, he makes me an offer: work exclusively for him until the debt is paid.

I move into his penthouse world of silk sheets and blood money, cooking for hardened men who could kill, while he watches me work with an intensity that makes my skin burn, and my panties dampen.

When rival threats escalate, Giovanni moves me into his bed.

For my safety, he says.

For his pleasure, I know.

Then I discover his secret—he’s been using Nonna’s debt payments to keep neighborhood businesses alive, protecting people who can’t protect themselves.

This brutal man has a heart buried so deep, I’m the only one who’s found it.

Then the Russos grab me in retaliation for the past sins of the Contis, and Gio thinks I’ve betrayed him and chosen his enemy.

By the time he realizes the truth, I’m already gone.

And so is any chance our baby will know its father.