Y/N is a fearless young woman on a mission to save her three-year-old son, Marcus, kidnapped by the powerful Riddle mafia family. Infiltrating a luxurious villa on the southern coast of Italy, she must navigate danger, guards, and the unpredictable Mattheo Riddle, 21, flirty and cunning. Every step brings tension, every move is calculated, and the slow burn attraction between them adds a dangerous edge. Nothing will stop Y/N from bringing Marcus home.
In Ancient Rome it was normal for powerful people such as kings or emperor’s to have concubines- men or women, but if a man was the bottom in the concubine relationship, they were seen as weak.
You have always lived the kind of life people in Rome whisper about. Your family name opens doors before you even knock. Your house is one of those beautiful old Roman villas hidden behind tall gates, your closet is filled with designer clothes, and everyone assumes your life must be perfect.
One package. One mistake. Now they want you gone. After a package is mistakenly delivered to your apartment, your ordinary life disappears overnight. Inside are confidential documents, photographs, and an encrypted USB—information valuable enough to ignite a war between two of Italy’s most powerful crime families. You don’t understand what you’ve found. They don’t care. To them, you’re a liability that needs to disappear. Before the people hunting you can make good on the contract, you’re taken under the protection of Don Theo Nott, the quiet and calculating Capofamiglia of the Famiglia Nott. He doesn’t ask for the package. He asks for your memory. “Tell me everything you remember.” In exchange, he’ll keep you alive. But in a world where loyalty is earned in blood and betrayal is punished without mercy, every answer you give pulls you deeper into a war you were never meant to witness. Because the longer you remain under Theo Nott’s protection… The more dangerous leaving becomes.
Y/N goes to Rome for a study abroad program at their university when you run into Felix at the meeting discussing the trip. A playboy you met from a frat party last year. You never have talked to him; however, you know he is bad news, and now you have to spend a whole semester abroad with him. However, you have your best friend, Kora, so not everything is lost.