{"product_id":"castellanos-vow-a-dark-mafia-billionaire-romance-castellano-empire-a-dark-mafia-romance-trilogy","title":"Castellano's Vow: A Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance (Castellano Empire - A Dark Mafia Romance Trilogy)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe sent her away to keep her alive. He never told her why.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDante Castellano is the brother the family points at when something has to disappear. Thirty-nine years old, six-three, the second of four Castellano sons and the one who keeps the family's empire intact when polite power isn't enough. Last winter a Marchetti arson left him with second-degree burns across his left forearm and a debt he intends to collect in full. He runs the inside-source hunt because no one else can stomach what it costs. He has not let himself want anything in eight years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeatrice Gallo is thirty-four. A forensic linguist in a Brooklyn lab — the kind of woman who can identify a man's province from how he writes his contracts. Once, she was an FBI analyst on the Castellano surveillance squad. Once, she spent six months being a name Dante said in the dark. In October 2018 her section chief sat her down and told her the affair she had never breathed a word of to anyone had been discovered. She resigned the next day. She has not spoken his name aloud since.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Dante walks into her lab to tell her a Marchetti capo has put her in his sights, and that her files prove the two crime families are sharing a legal drafter neither admits to, she has thirty seconds to decide whether to run from the only people who know what she really is, or get in the car.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat he doesn't know: she has held the name of the man who burned her in 2018 for eight years. What she doesn't know: the man who burned her wasn't the FBI. The leak was inside his family. The proof has been on her desk all along.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the woman you let go to save her is the only one who can finish the war you started — what do you owe her?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook 2 of the Castellano Empire series. Standalone HEA, full series cohesion. Future books follow Luca and Rafael Castellano. But this is Dante's story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTropes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnemies to lovers · second-chance romance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEight-year separation, both sides still bleeding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormer FBI analyst FMC × mafia enforcer MMC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForced proximity (Castellano penthouse, no lock on her door)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItalian-American mafia · Manhattan empire · Marchetti rivalry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePossessive MMC · clever FMC who reads what's not said\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFederal RICO investigation closing in on both families\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForbidden romance · cross-line cost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDark HEA, no fade-to-black\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Cora Reilly, Rina Kent, Ana Huang, Penelope Douglas, Alta Hensley (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSovranos\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Danielle Lori, K.C. Crowne, and Vanessa Vale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContent note: explicit sexual content, on-page violence (mafia rivalry, arson aftermath, threat scenes), morally dark hero who orchestrates violence, surveillance and forced-proximity dynamics, federal-investigation tension, eight-year separation grief processed on-page, dead-relationship-by-coercion backstory. No SA of the FMC, no cheating, no OW\/OM drama. HEA unambiguous. Dark romance readers are not punished with ambiguous endings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914010190015,"sku":"11b11b7b-0676-47f0-a1a4-6802c066bae0","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/f88531be63589fc24960e70207c837b7.jpg?v=1785053661","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/castellanos-vow-a-dark-mafia-billionaire-romance-castellano-empire-a-dark-mafia-romance-trilogy","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}