When She Falls

Gentlemen do not look at engaged women the way Ras Sorrentino looks at Gemma Garzolo. He is the underboss of the most powerful clan in the Camorra — chaos and danger in a well-cut Italian suit — and every one of their encounters has gone badly. The first time she met him she thought he had come to kill her. The second time she wanted to kill him. The third was in Ibiza, glaring at him across a church while her sister married his boss.

What Gemma hates most is not his sharp tongue or his taunting. It is his gaze: how it narrows when she flinches, how it hardens when he sees the bruises on her face, how he looks at her engagement ring like he wants to melt it off her finger. She cannot afford to let him get to her. Her family's fate rests on the marriage her father arranged, and her fiancé is interested in exactly one thing about her — a reputation Ras seems delighted to ruin. At least he lives on the other side of the world. Until he tells her he is flying back to New York with her, and that he is not leaving.

When She Falls is the third book in Gabrielle Sands's The Fallen — an enemies-to-lovers dark mafia romance about a woman who has learned to make herself small and the man who refuses to let her. The author lists content warnings for violence, domestic violence, explicit scenes, mentions of emotional abuse, mentions of disordered eating and mentions of pregnancy.