Silent Lies

Sienna is married off to Drago, the deaf and possessive head of a Serbian crime organization. The match seals a fragile truce with her own family's Cosa Nostra connections. Her orders are to report back everything she overhears inside his home.

Drago suspects from the first that his new wife is a spy. He finds he cannot bring himself to punish her for it, and the arranged marriage starts to turn into something neither of them planned.

This is a mafia romance with a grumpy-sunshine pairing and an age gap between the leads. Both hide as much as they show. Sienna's bright outlook covers a private history that includes a suicide attempt. Drago's guardedness comes from his hearing loss and a survivor's guilt he has never spoken about.

The lies each was told to keep and the truths neither can stop confessing blur together as the story goes on.

The book is the eighth in the Perfectly Imperfect series and reads as a standalone. It keeps to a no-cheating promise and a guaranteed happy ending. Expect the mafia violence and intense subject matter typical of the genre.