When She Loves
The most brutal don in the city has a weakness, and Cleo Garzolo is standing at the end of the aisle looking at him. She never wanted the life her parents tried to force on her, and she swore she would never marry a mobster — but her sister was promised first, and Cleo volunteered in her place.
Rafaele Messero is cold, ruthless and irritatingly handsome, and this wedding is nothing more than a calculated business move on his part. That is what Cleo believes, right up to the moment he tells the priest to hurry so that he can kiss her. They call him the ice prince; nothing about the way he kisses her is cold. Her plan was to keep her distance. His plan is her. And now that Cleo knows what he wants, she is determined never to give it to him — no matter how relentlessly he sets about conquering his own wife.
When She Loves is the fourth book in Gabrielle Sands's The Fallen — an arranged-marriage dark mafia romance with a possessive hero, a heroine who refuses to submit, and a grovel to be earned. The author lists content warnings for violence, domestic violence, explicit scenes, mentions of emotional abuse, mentions of physical abuse and mentions of rape.
The youngest Garzolo sister, who volunteered to marry a mobster so that her sister would not have to.
The most brutal don in the city, known as the ice prince, who marries Cleo as a business move and then does not behave like it.
Cleo's sister, the one she took the marriage to spare.
