Love Most Fatal

Vanessa Morelli has spent her whole life training for two roles: CEO of Morelli Construction and boss of the Morelli crime family, both of which she runs with total command — until shipments start vanishing and construction sites start exploding. An ill-advised date with her Godson's dog-owning, painfully ordinary math teacher Nate goes sideways fast, and Vanessa ends up bringing him under her protection while she roots out the saboteur. Nate wants nothing to do with the queen of the city's organized crime once he learns who she really is, but staying alive means moving in for the summer — and getting bored enough to start interviewing eligible mafiosi to help Vanessa find a husband.

Kath Richards opens the Morelli Family series with a quirky, forced-proximity mafia rom-com pairing a crime boss with the last man she expects to fall for.