Distance

Keller came up through an underground street-fighting circuit, poor and hungry, and now holds the world heavyweight boxing title. The belt hides another life. He works as an enforcer for the mafia and stays bound to it until his debts are paid.

One deal could free him: he must unify his boxing belts. Then Sienna walks into his path. She is British, newly settled in New York, and rebuilding after a broken engagement.

Sienna has given up on men and on happy endings, convinced that people leave. Keller tries to hold her at arm's length, partly to keep her safe and partly to protect his own chance at freedom. Neither of them can shake the pull between them.

This is a dark mafia romance with morally gray anti-heroes, high tension, and alternating points of view between Keller and Sienna. It is the first book in the Beneath the Mask series by Luna Mason, interconnected stories about elite criminal families and the fighters caught inside them.

As Keller's double life begins to surface, he has to choose between the freedom he has fought for and the woman he never meant to let close.