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📖 Paperback Edition — The ring was supposed to stop a war. The man who put it on me was supposed to stay my enemy.

Maximo Alvarez has wrecked three of my negotiations, broken a man’s jaw outside my office, and spent six years looking at me like he remembers exactly how I sound when I lose control.

He does remember. That is the problem.

Now he wants to put a ring on my finger.

Not because he loves me. Because someone is stealing from both our families, bodies are washing up along the river, and Blackwater is one bad night from war.

Our engagement is a treaty with photographs. Eight weeks. One penthouse. Two bedrooms. Fourteen clauses. Smile for the cameras, kiss on schedule, and make every enemy we have believe we cannot be divided.

Simple.

Until he learns how I take my coffee. Until I stop sleeping when he is gone. Until the first time he calls me his without an audience.

I can negotiate anything. I never planned to negotiate with the part of me that wants this marriage to be real.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High Heat • Dark MM Mafia Romance by Rafe Calder

Tropes: Fake Engagement • Rival Mafia Heirs • Enemies to Lovers • Marriage of Convenience • Second Chance (One Night Six Years Ago) • Forced Proximity • He Falls First • Touch Him and Die (Both Ways) • Possessive Heroes • Morally Grey × Morally Grey • Switch Dynamic • Suit Kink

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes, including rough sex, wrists bound with boxing hand wraps, a necktie used for control, rimming, angry sex during a separation, sex while a partner is injured, and both leads topping and bottoming; all on-page sex is consensual), on-page violence (a knife attack, a firebombing that injures a man, an armed attack and arson on a dock, gunshot wounds, a lead character shooting the antagonist, a lead slashed with a knife), the murders of two men off-page with their bodies discovered, an implied off-page execution, organized crime, bribery and financial fraud, a parent who uses affection as currency, emotional manipulation by a trusted father figure, police questioning, alcohol, and strong language. No sexual violence, no dub-con, no cheating. Intended for readers 18+.

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