Her Dangerous Scars

Isabella Romano has a scar that runs from her collarbone to her heart-a gift from her brother Carlo when she was sixteen. He wanted to mark her as damaged. Instead, it taught her that scars make you dangerous when you stop hiding them. Now, as her father's secret enforcer and the true power behind the Romano empire, Isabella's been playing the long game. When she orchestrates gallery curator Paolo's brutal murder on neutral territory, she triggers the perfect storm: a mandatory joint investigation that forces her into proximity with four men she's been studying for years.
Dante Valentino, the calculated Don who thinks he's playing chess while Isabella's already won. Marco, the volatile enforcer whose violence she plans to redirect. Luca, the brilliant consigliere whose strategic mind almost matches hers. And Mateo Castellano, the Sicilian heir whose family wants to reclaim New York-and who sees through her masks in ways that terrify her. Isabella will use them all.
Seduce them strategically. Turn their obsession into her weapon. She needs their territories, their soldiers, their complete submission to execute the coup she's planned for three years. But she didn't plan on Mateo making her feel something real beneath the calculation. In the mafia, the most dangerous scars are the ones you give yourself. And Isabella's about to carve her name across every family in New York-even if it means destroying the one man who could actually love the monster she's become.